OSINT

Albania, France
Datagenese backed by specialists in France-Albania business relations

The young French open source intelligence (OSINT) company, which is setting up an Albanian subsidiary, has support from leading figures in the France-Albania business sector.

The Tech Telegraph
ENISA's CTI, Department of State ramps up Jamaican OSINT

From SIGINT to GEOINT and OSINT, with a dose of cyber, each week we report on events both big and small that matter in the community of technical intelligence providers.

AthensEU cybersecurity agency selects cyber threat intelligence partners

KingstonUS Department of State provides cyber support to Jamaican police

The Agencies' Gazette
Russia using Hawala payments, Vietnam's new Paris defence attaché, ISC renewal, Silk Roads into Europe, Kremlin/Vatican's parallel diplomacy

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

Russia/UKRussian embassy uses Hawala payments to dodge sanctions

Vietnam/France Hanoi appoints new defence attaché to Paris embassy

United KingdomNew Westminster intelligence committee crew take over

ChinaSecond New Silk Road phase turns towards Europe

Vatican/RussiaKremlin sends back-channel message it is open to Christmas ceasefire

France
New French PM François Bayrou starts job with only a tiny intelligence network

Appointed by French President Emmanuel Macron last Friday, Prime Minister François Bayrou will have to get to grips with the world of intelligence pretty quickly.

Ecuador, Israel
Alpheratz CIA, Israeli cyber intelligence firms' representative in Ecuador

Cyber intelligence outfit Intellexa, currently under US sanctions, made it known that it has ceased all activity for now. It still has a little distribution network in South America that includes the Ecuadorian firm Alpheratz CIA.

The Agencies' Gazette
Moscow's Bashkir recruits, police intel focus on terrorism, Guoanbu and social media, ODNI's Russia division

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

RussiaKremlin sends ever more Bashkir men to war to avoid general mobilisation

FranceA quarter of territorial police intelligence staff focused on radicalisation and terrorism

ChinaGuoanbu warns of dangers of social media recordings

United StatesDNI's Russia office shrinks ahead of second Trump administration

China, France
Court highlights glaring errors in French intelligence service note on Chinese company

Legal action by the head of a Chinese company who has been refused a French visa has shown up deficiencies of the DGSI in the financial investigation sphere. The note the French domestic intelligence service prepared for a court hearing was torn to pieces by the man's defence team.

The Agencies' Gazette
DNI hires Elon Musk buddies, Chinese think tank and censorship, DGSE applicants not up to scratch

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

United States Republican PR guru Juleanna Glover picks out intelligence consultants

ChinaThink tanks raise tone against internet censorship

FranceExternal intelligence agency underwhelmed by applicants for Russian and Arabic roles

China, United States
Guoanbu steers talks as China seeks path towards compromise on nuclear parity with US

In addition to the renewed engagement between Chinese and American academics after a five-year hiatus, the CCP wants to hold informal nuclear arms talks with the US. They could be a step towards new official discussions between the two.

The Tech Telegraph
Athena AI takes on Washington, Vietnamese Pentest tender, Spanish military OSINT purchase

From SIGINT to GEOINT and OSINT with a dose of cyber, we report every Thursday on events big and small that matter in the technical intelligence community.

WashingtonAustralian intelligence data fusion leader takes on US defence market

HanoiGovernment rolls out wide-scale pentest across its agencies

MadridSpanish military intelligence buys OSINT platform