INTELLIGENCE ONLINE

North Korea, Russia
Isolated Moscow revives industrial and academic relations with Pyongyang

Ater a break of two years caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, Moscow wants to resume a series of joint industrial projects with its Asian neighbour, while staying within the tight restrictions imposed by the United Nations.

Russia
Moscow stirs up personal data hornet's nest

Personal data, biometric data, civil registration: Russia's lawmakers have been tweaking the law to give its security services greater control of these hot-button files.

The Agencies' Gazette
Egypt's IS troubles, Kazakhstan's National Guard, Ukraine's new Marines

Appointments, reforms and key issues: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets of news, big and small, from the global intelligence community. This week we head to Cairo, Nur-Sultan and Odessa.

Egypt Military intel targeted by the local IS

Kazakhstan National Guard ups border surveillance

Ukraine New Marines' Odessa training

Spotlight | Israel, United States
Israeli cyber sector in turmoil following abandonment of L3Harris-NSO takeover talks

L3 Harris's plans to take over Israeli cyber intelligence specialist NSO, which were revealed by Intelligence Online less than a month ago, have been called off in the face of strong opposition from the Biden administration.

Spotlight | France
Between Avisa and French intelligence services, it's complicated

Negative media attention on Avisa Partners, Matthieu Creux's corporate intelligence and influence firm, illustrates the extent of French government ambivalence towards the company.

China, Taiwan
Taiwan's intelligence services try to alert Europe to China's invasion plans

The Taiwanese intelligence services, which are convinced that China will try to attack them as soon as the war in Ukraine is over, are looking for support in Europe.

France
DGSE heard in Amesys case

French courts are trying to unravel the French foreign intelligence service's involvement in the Libyan and Egyptian aspects of the case being brought against interception specialist Amesys (now Nexa Technologies) for "complicity in torture".

India, Russia
Russian defence conglomerate Rostec seeks help from Indian offset partners

With the war in Ukraine affecting Russian military exports, Russian defence companies are turning to Indian firms to carry out maintenance and supply of spare parts on their contracts.

Russia, Vatican
War in Ukraine: Vatican and Patriarch of Moscow rally their networks

While the Vatican is trying to position itself as a neutral negotiator between Moscow and Kyiv, the Patriarch of Moscow is looking for ways to counter his own increasing isolation.

France, UAE
Reem Lababidi crafts Franco-Emrati cyber contracts

Reem Lababidi, a UAE cyber deals specialist, is taking on new French companies looking to export to the Middle East, where defensive and offensive capacities are much in demand.

Pakistan
Army chief Qamer Javed Bajwa wants more time to improve relations with Saudi Arabia

A key figure in the Pakistani state hierarchy, chief of the army staff Qamer Javad Bajwa wants his tenure extended so that he can continue to work on improving Pakistan's relations with Saudi Arabia and deal with pressing security issues, like the growing influence of the Pakistani Taliban movement.

Kazakhstan
The Bolashak Consulting Group, a senior Kazakh official talent incubator

Bolashak Consulting Group has been a loyal ally to Nur-Sultan during its international legal battles and also acts as a talent incubator for the country's political and judicial elite.

Spotlight | France
Strong push for French arms sales' reform made in new military spending law

France's defence ministry is hoping to introduce sweeping reforms of the laws governing French arms exports as part of a review of the new military spending law wanted by French President Emmanuel Macron. Despite being on the cards for years, these changes have never got past the legal hurdles their implementation involves.

France
Who will shoulder the interior ministry to ensure the 2024 Paris Olympics' cybersecurity?

Determined to make the 2024 Paris Olympics a success in terms of cybersecurity, the French interior ministry is scanning the market for start-ups focusing mainly on the fields of mass data analysis and open source intelligence (OSINT) to help secure the games.