SIGINT

United States
SS8 gets an Algiers foothold

US company SS8 has won a major contract with Algerian intelligence, despite their usual preference for Chinese suppliers.

Cyprus, Israel, United Kingdom
London company FloLive maintains close connection to spyware developer Circles

New links have emerged between a FloLive shareholder and Tal Dilian, one of Circles' founders.

Russia, Ukraine
Russia hits commercial SAR constellations with jamming storm

Moscow is waging jamming attacks on synthetic aperture radar satellite constellations with the hopes it disrupts a crucial source of intelligence for the Ukrainian services.

The Agencies' Gazette
MbS in London, the UK FARA, Rome between Beijing and Delhi, DGSE ethics

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

Saudi Arabia/UKDate set for MbS London visit

United KingdomBritish FARA not up to scratch

ItalyRome split between ties with China or India

FranceDGSE bolsters ethics

The Tech Telegraph
ChapsVision, Singapore delegation in Rennes, low-cost SIGINT for Kyiv

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

ParisServices concerned by build of French technical intelligence monopoly around ChapsVision

RennesInterior minister pampers Singapore delegation

KyivUkrainian troops on the front bulk up on low-cost SIGINT

France
DGSI team to join French interministerial GIC at new office in Paris suburbs

France's Groupement Interministériel de Contrôle, which authorises interceptions by the intelligence services, will house a team from the DGSI at its new site in the Paris suburb of Montrouge.

France
French legal interceptions platform plagued by blind spots

Despite the efforts that were made to get it up and running, France's legal interceptions platform, or PNIJ, still has major glitches to sort out, a Senate report has revealed.

Ukraine
MPS Development, a pivot for the Ukrainian army's intel systems

The Ukrainian start-up is about to deploy two major intelligence projects for Kyiv's armed forces.

Israel
Hacking attack on veterans' association embarrasses Mossad and Shin Bet

Personal data on Shin Bet veterans might have been stolen when their association's website was hacked recently.

France, Kurdistan, Syria
Anti-ISIS fighter contests DGSI surveillance that led to his trial for terrorism

The defence team of a former French soldier of the Kurdish YPG, who fought against the Islamic State in Syria alongside the French special forces, has filed suit against the DGSI, France's domestic intelligence agency, over its surveillance of him that led to his trial for terrorism.

Israel
Israeli cyber providers called to assist intelligence services

Since Hamas's 7 October attack on Israel, Unit 8200 has been closing ranks with ex-officers, who are now heavyweights in the country's cyber intelligence sector. The goal is to bolster Israel's technical intelligence capacities and to understand why the intelligence community failed to predict the attack.

United Kingdom
UK's Foreign Office, Russia Unit and MI6 lead fight against Wagner

The British Foreign Office and the intelligence services attached to it are at the centre of an inter-ministerial mechanism coordinating the fight against the Russian private military company Wagner, mainly through counter-disinformation.

Spotlight | Russia, United States
Moscow flexes its muscles in the Arctic, Pentagon sees a smokescreen

Moscow has been trying to demonstrate the hardening of its security posture in the Arctic, leaking its efforts to mine Arctic waters and engage in electronic warfare. But US intelligence analysts see this as a Russian attempt to mask the collapse of its operational capabilities in the region.