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Israel
IAI's dreams of profits fade away in Jamaica

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has lowered its profitability forcast for a cyber project it delivered recently, a development set to dampen the enthusiasm of other Israeli cyber firms doing business with the Caribbean nation.

Spotlight | Ukraine, United States
Ukrainian military intelligence prepares to demonstrate its cyber offensive capacities in DC

A summit dedicated to the hybrid war between Ukraine and Russia is to take place in Washington, thanks to sponsorship from private sector cyber security and intelligence operators and CIA venture capital firm In-Q-Tel. The event will highlight the cyber offensive operations carried out by Ukraine's GUR.

Afghanistan, France
French foreign ministry puts Afghanistan on hold

The French foreign ministry's team responsible for Afghanistan has been dismantled. For the moment no one has been appointed to replace outgoing ambassador David Martinon.

The Intelligence Gazette
New public security director in Jordan, Susnjara candidate for DRSD, Kalinovsky Regiment goes political, sex scandal in Copenhagen

Appointments reforms and key issues: every Monday, Intelligence Online reports on developments great and small in the global intelligence community. This week, we bring news from Amman, Paris, Minsk and Copenhagen.

JordanAbdallah II appoints new public security chief to combat drug trafficking.

FrancePhilippe Susnjara favourite to head the DRSD.

Belarus/UkraineKalinovsky Regiment goes political.

DenmarkRevelations about spy chief's sex life threaten Social Democrats

Germany, Iraq
Monarch well placed for contract to audit future new elections in Iraq

With Iraq still without a government, German company Monarch has already been able to carry out a real-life test of its democracy protection service. The privately owned group carried out physical and cyber security audits during the country's last parliamentary elections.

The Tech Times
Butterfly Effect unveils Triton, Holland joins Shield Capital, HiJojo helps Kela, Kent lobbies for Trinity cyber

Whether in SIGINT, GEOINT, OSINT or cyber, we report each week on developments great and small in the world of technical intelligence providers.

Nursultan Butterfly Effect launches intercepted data analytics platform

Boston Holland joins Shield Capital

Tel Aviv Following co-founder Yigal Naveh's death, Kela receives funding from Japanese HiJoJo

Washington Former NSA executive Ryan's Trinity Cyber recruits a lobbyist

Jordan, Syria
Amman and Damascus coordinate intelligence to bring refugees home

There are 39,000 Syrian refugees still registered in Jordan. The government in Damascus has mobilised its intelligence service to advocate for their repatriation, as has Amman, whose Public Safety Directorate is overseeing the departures. Both are keeping a very close watch on the exiled population.

Europe, Russia, UAE
Acustek distributes surveillance countermeasures from Dublin to Dubai

Ireland's Acustek, which markets surveillance countermeasure solutions, has cut its ties with its Russian past and is now looking to the United Arab Emirates, where it is due to open an office soon.

Ukraine
Ukrainian-orientated lobbyist Yorktown defends telecoms Kyivstar in Washington

Kyivstar, which is facing disrupted networks due to the war and shareholder agitation, is relying on Yorktown Solutions to help it find support in the United States. The consultancy has extensive experience with Ukraine's key sectors.

United States
FBI faces increasing political scrutiny as election security and counter-espionage work piles up

FBI head Chris Wray needs to continue adapting the bureau to meet new internal and external threats. Paradoxically, the supposedly traditionally conservative organisation is confronted by increasingly fierce attacks from the Republican Party.

France, Israel
French internal intelligence services look at Israeli firm Cognyte's technology

The French interior ministry is taking an interest in virtual human intelligence, or HUMINT, tools, that create and manage avatars on the darkweb. It is evaluating products from Cognyte, a spin-off of the Israeli cyberintelligence market leader Verint.

The Intelligence Gazette
Charles III's spies, Iraqi Mukhabarat mobilised, Confucius Institutes under US pressure, research at GCHQ, German counter-espionage and France's CNRLT

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets from the global intelligence community and this week we're heading to Kerbala, Washington, London, Berlin and Paris.

United Kingdom Charles III, King of Spies

Iraq Intelligence services suit up ahead of Arba'een pilgrimage

United States/China Pressure mounts on Confucius institutes

United Kingdom GCHQ creates a behavioural science research centre to screen hires

Germany Doubts over counter-terrorism, now counter-espionage

France New candidate for the CNRLT

Azerbaijan, Israel
Prosol enlists Israeli experts to boost Azerbaijani cyber training

Azerbaijan's small cyber sector has brought in Israeli experts to make up for the deficit in its own capacities. Local integrator Prosol, which is in the process of building up its own product range, is leading private sector initiatives in this area.