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Mediterranean a new nest for (private) spies

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French drone makers in Kyiv, 325X opens doors in London, Bold Analytics' new Cypriot partner

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

KyivFrench drone makers present their wares in Kyiv

LondonBrit tech intelligence veterans join forces to found 325X

HerzliyaBold Analytics changes Cyprus shareholders

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.

Chile, Israel
Israeli cyber company makes gains in Chile despite diplomatic snub thanks to SecurityST

The consultancy firm led by sector veteran Ruben Celedon met with high-ranking Chilean military officers to tout the cyber wares and tools of Israeli firms such as Elta, Interionet and Voyager Labs.

Cyprus, Israel
Pafos Institute strengthens Israel and Cyprus' cyber relationship

The launch of the Pafos Innovation Institute (PPI) last week [...]

Israel
Unit 8200 parts ways with cyber reservists

The Israel Defense Forces' (IDF) cyber unit is rethinking its human resources policy on the use of cyber-reservists. According to [...]

Europe
Argus Security puts one foot in Ankara thanks to EU

Argus Security Projects (ASP), the Cyprus-based firm founded by Thierry [...]

Europe
Israeli cyber an economic and security headache for Cyprus

The Cyprus police seized a demonstration vehicle belonging to WiSpear on November 16, an incident that highlights an issue that [...]

United Kingdom
NCSC increasingly reliant on data from private sector

Britain's National Counterterrorism Center, the cyber-defence agency attached to GCHQ, [...]

Sweden
FRA intercepts on police's behalf

The Forensics Risk Alliance (Forsvarets Radioanstalt ), the Swedish defence [...]

Europe
OLAF probes Hart's cars in Afghanistan

According to our sources, the European anti-fraud office OLAF is [...]

Europe
EU's €100 million Afghanistan security contract in limbo

According to our sources, the European External Action Service (EEAS) is poised to delay its decision on which company will [...]

Europe
XCI, former BAE team, tackles encrypted messages

The Denmark-based company XCI is preparing to make its first public appearance at the ISS Asia interceptions technology fair in [...]

Australia
Cyber agency's trick to facilitate hacker recruitment

Confronted with the same staffing problems as its European and American counterparts (IOL 809), the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), Australia's [...]

Europe
Argus advised by former RSO

Argus Security Projects (ASP) is counting on keeping its contract [...]

France, Iraq
Laurent Wauquiez under close protection in Baghdad

According to our sources, Laurent Wauquiez, the head of France's Les Republicains political party, was protected by the private security [...]

Afghanistan, Europe
Competition builds for EU Kabul contract

According to our sources, a number of private security companies interested in the contract to protect the European External Action [...]

United Kingdom
Military intelligence to strengthen COMINT capacity

Invited by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), the Ministry [...]

Europe, Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia security tender, round two

The European External Action Service (EEAS) has recently relaunched a [...]

Israel
Defence ministry holds on to NSO

The Israeli defence ministry continues to defend the interceptions firm Q Cyber Technologies, the former NSO Group, from moves to [...]

Europe
Prosec invited to bid for EU protection role in Beirut

Prosec, a Lebanese security Rouffaud firm known within the sector, [...]

Europe
Belstone Dart protects European diplomats in Mogadishu

According to Intelligence Online's sources, Belstone Dart International has been awarded the contract to protect EUCAP Somalia, the EU capacity-building [...]

Europe, United Kingdom
London keen to retain EUAM Iraq role post-Brexit

The future of British involvement in the European Union Assistance Mission (EUAM) in Iraq, which was agreed to in October, [...]

Europe
Chodiev stills counts on GlobalSource's investigators

According to our sources, Kazakh oligarch Patokh Chodiev has the US corporate intelligence firm GlobalSource, headed by Bill Hutman, helping [...]

Israel
With WiSpear, GSM interception champion Tal Dilian gets into WiFi

After the sale of his interception company Circles, Tal Dilian, the former head of the Tsahal's Unit 8100, has launched a long-range WiFi interceptor.

Europe
British firms braced for Brexit’s impact on EU security contracts

As Brexit looks likely to prompt the European External Action [...]

Sebastiao Chinguane drops security firm Chelsea Group

The boss of the Mozambican subsidiary of Chelsea Group has [...]

Argus fails to get EUBAM Tripoli contract

Argus Security Projects, which is very active in Libya, will [...]