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France
France's DGSI domestic intelligence on edge ahead of Xi Jinping's visit

With the Chinese president about to arrive for a state visit, the French domestic intelligence service is stepping up its efforts to track down potential Chinese spies.

France
French investigators persist in bypassing national legal interception platform

France's Plateforme Nationale des Interceptions Judiciaires is being snubbed by investigators who increasingly prefer to use private operators.

Poland, United States
Warsaw uses US equipment to reactivate its Soviet era ground interception stations

Warsaw is currently modernising some of its Cold War ground communications interceptions stations with help from Antenna Products, a US company known for its involvement in the HAARP project.

United States
Boeing eyes New Delhi's new spy planes for its latest technical intelligence pod

The US planemaker Boeing is currently testing a new intelligence tool for its P-8 Poseidon aircraft, which it appears willing to offer to India as the country seeks to acquire its own state-of-the-art surveillance aircraft.

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.

Spotlight | South Korea, United States
5G already vulnerable to new interception techniques

The fifth-generation cellular network in its Standalone Access version has barely been rolled out but is already showing weaknesses in the face of new specialised tools.

Iran, Russia, Ukraine
Moscow's new drones dodge Kyiv's electronic countermeasures

The Russian military is deploying new tech so it can resume large-scale strikes on Ukraine's main urban centres.

France, India
Paris and Delhi join underwater acoustic intelligence forces

France's Naval Group is carrying out advanced research in the field of AI applied to acoustic intelligence with a specialist lab in New Delhi, hoping to be able to detect new types of near-silent submarines.

Spotlight | Germany, Russia
Ukraine targets German space sector over Russian links

Germany's Exolaunch, a start-up that works with leaders in Europe's space intelligence sector, has officially made amends for its past links, but Ukrainian investigators hunting Kremlin sock puppets are convinced the company is playing a double game.

Ukraine
Buntar Aerospace at vanguard of Ukraine's ISR

The company is testing its Rebel-1 tactical drone that relies on artificial intelligence and has already caught the eye of some of Kyiv's NATO partners.

Belarus
Defector officers launch new psychological campaign against regime

Former special forces paratrooper and exiled activist Valery Sakhashik's team is targeting loyalist Belarusian military circles with psychological operations to flip them, and their next project will involve NATO officers.

Ukraine
Ukraine's Flightmind AI develops algorithms to combat Russian jamming

A Ukrainian start-up is testing an AI algorithm that enables Kyiv's drones to fly despite Russian GPS jamming.

Ukraine, United Kingdom
London helping Kyiv reduce dependence on Chinese drone tech

British services are pushing UK firm DTC's toughened data link technology for first-person view (FPV) drones to Ukrainian start-ups.

Russia
Moscow steps up against Kyiv's 'Army of Drones'

The Russian military is carrying out frontline tests of a new version of its Orlan-30B dedicated to electronic warfare to counter the swarm of low-cost, DIY Ukrainian drones.

The Tech Times
Paris skips Danish cyber summit, UAE's Protect exposed by Google, Black River Systems integrates 5G, Preligens starts afresh

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.

CopenhagenFrance gives Danish cyber summit a miss

DubaiGoogle exposes Protect Electronic Systems

Rome, New YorkBlack River Systems integrates 5G

ParisPreligens loses defence fair sponsor