Spotlight | Israel, UAE
Faced with Israeli resellers, foreign zero-day specialists flock to Abu Dhabi

UAE
ZeroZenX latest to join Dubai's buzzing zero-day marketplace

The fledgling zero-day vulnerability acquisition platform is starting to make its first acquisitions. It is based in Dubai, a fast emerging global hub for that sector.

Spain
Cyber intelligence company Variston changes tack

The Barcelona-based cyber intelligence firm is seeking a new path after being called out by Google's Threat Analysis Group and losing some of its core staff.

Spotlight | Spain
Zero-day vulnerability market tries to restructure

Currently in crisis, the zero-day field is attempting to reorganise, but some leading sellers are being forced to shut shop.

Spain
Ex-Variston zero-day experts regroup at Paradigm Shift

The fallout of Google's accusations has left the Spanish cyber intelligence firm floundering and its zero-day vulnerability hunters leaving to new ventures.

UAE
Crowdfense reboots bug bounty programme

Following months of restructuring, the Emirati vulnerabilities reseller has revised its zero-day exploit acquisition programme with an even larger bounty package than before.

UAE
Shake-up of market for zero-day vulnerabilities

As he settles in to his new role as CEO of Crowdfense, an Emirati zero-day vulnerabilities broker, Paolo Stagno will be looking to adapt to the new challenges following a significant crash in the market.

Russia, Spain
Russian zero-day exploit researchers prosper in Barcelona

Catalonia is attracting a growing number of fleeing Russian cyber specialists.

The Tech Times
Mollitiam gets new CEO, Paolo Stagno joins Crowdfense, Whooster assists US Secret Service

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.

ToledoSantiago Molins Riera takes helm at Mollitiam Industries

Abu DhabiPaolo Stagno joins zero-day supplier Crowdfense

WashingtonUS Secret Service updates OSINT platform

United States
Dark Circuit Labs looks for vulnerabilities for Lockheed Martin

Young US cyber company Dark Circuit Labs is continuing to work for Lockheed Martin despite an internal quarrel over its contract with the US defence giant.

UAE
Abu Dhabi-based vulnerability researcher Crowdfense undergoes a small revolution

The UAE's established zero-day firm is retooling management and its bug bounty programme

Israel, Kenya
Nitay Artenstein, former journalist now selling zero-day tech in Nairobi

Going solo from 2017 after a stint at American Exodus Intelligence, Israeli researcher and former journalist Artenstein now runs his small zero-day firm, Effective Cyber Research And Solutions, from Kenya.

Spotlight | Russia, UAE
Russian vulnerabilities reseller Operation Zero tries its luck in the Gulf

The zero-day vulnerabilities firm headed by Russian hacker Sergei Zelenyuk has been prospecting in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

Spotlight | Russia
Russian firm Operation Zero braves Ukraine war to launch into zero day market

Recently created Russian company Operation Zero is offering substantial rewards for zero-day vulnerabilities despite its young age. It has emerged during the war in Ukraine, taking advantage of a more liberal attitude on Moscow's part towards private sector cyber companies.

Israel, Italy
Ofer Cohen link Israeli cyber sector and US special forces air transport contractor

Ofer Cohen, who founded a cybersecurity company with Stephen Arbib, head of US special forces contractor MAG Logistics, is today head of vulnerability trader Dataflow Security. The company is based in Italy but has now opened a subsidiary in Spain.

Italy
Dataflow Security tracks down vulnerabilities for Europe's cyber intelligence companies

Young Italian firm Dataflow Security sells the zero-day vulnerabilities it finds, along with the exploit codes that go with them, to European cyber intelligence operators.

Spotlight | Israel
Dataflow Security and Rayzone poach key staff from troubled NSO

Between them, Italy's Dataflow Security and Israel's Rayzone Group have signed up a couple of specialists from the troubled Israeli cyber intelligence firm NSO Group.