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Azerbaijan, France
France's DGSE caught off guard by Azerbaijani disinformation campaign

Paris has been surprised by the destabilisation operations carried out since last year by Azerbaijan. France's external intelligence service has nevertheless managed to identify the agents carrying out these operations for President Ilham Aliyev's regime.

France
DGSI launches tests for future open source investigation platform

The French internal intelligence service has asked its agents to test OSINT products developed by the private sector.

The Tech Times
Russia's TC Lentrans to produce ISR balloons, Ety Richman takes charge at Kaymera, Zvook's listening network goes nationwide

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.

St PetersburgRussia's TC Lentrans to produce surveillance balloons with Stilsoft

HerzliyaEty Richman takes charge of struggling Kaymera

KyivZvook extends its airborne accoustic detection network

Armenia
Erevan moves to reinforce its cyber defences

Armenia wants to develop its response capacities after having been recently targeted by numerous cyber intelligence operations. A draft bill on the topic is being debated in parliament.

France
Encryption startup CyferAll plans capital increase, banks on military networks

Post-quantum encryption start-up CyferAll is planning a new round of fundraising, which it hopes will be facilitated by the appointment of a former French general to its advisory board.

Spotlight | Israel
ADINT versus zero-click, the new battle of infection vectors

The cyber infection market is shifting from zero-click vulnerabilities to ADINT, or advertising intelligence, which uses targeted advertising to develop intrusion capacities.

Turkey
Pars Defense, Turkey's zero-day champion

Pars Defense, a young Turkish company specialising in the detection of previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities, has suddenly found itself classed alongside such leaders of the sector as NSO Group and Intellexa.

Israel
In midst of ramping up offensive cybertool development, Israel's Patternz taken to court

Israeli start-up Patternz, one of a small group of companies seeking to build a bridge between geolocation via advertising data (ADINT) and spyware, has been taken to court by the well-connected business development firm Improvate The Future.

Israel
Key Israeli cyber players bank on Interionet

The Israeli firm that specialises in compromising connected objects is having a hard time breaking into the cyber-intelligence market.

United States
Strange foreign lobbying registration exposes FARA vulnerabilities

Jonathan Scott registered to represent the Rwanda National Police, submitting as evidence a Twitter exchange with a police officer using the handle @SongaF. FARA posted the filing, which remains active on its website even though the Rwandan National Police says it has no contract with Scott or know who he is.

Israel
Is zero-click spyware really the ultimate cyber-intelligence solution?

Israeli cyber-specialists are rushing to develop so-called zero-click infection capabilities - those that do not require any interaction on the part of the target. But some specialists consider the method unreliable.

Israel
NSO Group veterans launch OSINT start-up IntelEye

Maor Sellek and Ziv Haba, two former employees of Israeli cyber-intelligence firm NSO Group, have teamed with business development specialist Oshrat Kakon Faribai to found the start-up IntelEye.

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.

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.

Israel
NSO helps buoy ties between Tel Aviv and N'Djamena

The Israeli cyber-intelligence firm NSO Group recently won a contract with Chadian intelligence. But it is also eager to maintain links beetween Chad and Mossad.