Spotlight | France, Israel
Paris and Tel Aviv vie for African interception contracts

Italy
Italian cyber fills gaps left by France, Israel

Italian cyber-intelligence company IPS, which is developing the Medusa platform, and the more offensive interception firm RCS Lab are both expanding their export business.

The Tech Times
Italians turnout for ISS, Waller to head Ercom, XM Cyber's Singapore office, ShadowDragon in Japan, Google back at Pentagon

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

Prague Italian technical intelligence providers out in force at ISS

Paris Romain Waller appointed Ercom MD

Singapore XM Cyber poaches from Anomali to open Singapore office

Tokyo ShadowDragon turns to Cyber Defense to enter Japanese market

Washington Google back in the Pentagon via New Delhi

Spotlight | Africa, France
Bernard Barbier boosts French bid to get back on top of African cyber sector

Bernard Barbier, a former bigwig in France's DGSE foreign intelligence service, has been promoting French cyber in Ivory Coast, notably on behalf of the former foreign intelligence officers' firms Tehtris and Corexalys.

France
With Le Gall, Sahar pursues shift towards security and defence

The French big data startup Sahar has recently hired Erwan [...]

Israel
Intercept 9500 takes offensive tack against cyber-influence ops

As more companies enter the cyber-influence detection market, Israel's Intercept 9500 is taking a step further by offering counter-operations.

Egypt
Chinese interception companies woo Egypt's SIGINT agency

The Technical Research Department (TRD), which receives extensive support from Western intelligence services, is being courted by China's surveillance industry.

Spotlight | Africa, China, Israel
Chinese security and intelligence groups make inroads into Africa

After the influx of Israeli firms, Africa is now the target of the Chinese security sector, which is using local agents to connect with intelligence services on the continent.

Africa, Israel
Rwanda invests directly in Israeli drones

According to Intelligence Online's sources, the Rwandan government will soon acquire half of the capital of one of Israel's drone manufacturers. This is the first such purchase for the two countries, which are particularly close in terms of security and intelligence.

Israel, United States
Congress seeks to speed up military R&D rapprochement with Tel Aviv

A bill introduced in Congress on June 11 by representatives [...]

Israel
Root Networks markets operator-free interceptions

Root Networks has developed technology that can hack into local networks and intercept communications without the involvement of telecom operators.

France
Claude Philippe-Jolivel leaves Suneris to go solo

Ercom's integration into Thales seems to be problematic (IOL 822), [...]

France
Thales poised to acquire DGSE favourite SIGINT specialist Ercom

Intelligence Online can reveal that the French Defense Giant Thales has make an offer to buy Ercom.

France
Suneris acquires software business from interceptions firm AMECS

Suneris Solutions, the government contracts subsidiary of the interceptions firm [...]

Africa, Belarus, Russia
558 ARP paves way for Minsk and Moscow in African defence markets

A discreet Belarussian aeronautical maintenance company is being used by Moscow as a scout to identify new diplomatic security opportunities across Africa.

France
Crisis at Suneris, DGSE's favourite supplier

According to our sources, Pierre-Mayeul Badaire was dismissed as deputy managing director of Suneris Solution this summer for professional misconduct. [...]

Israel
FirstPoint unveils anti-interception SIM card

Launched by two Israeli interceptions experts, the firm FirstPoint MG has developed a means to protect smartphones against intrusion and IMSI catchers using a simple SIM card.

France, United States
DGSE, GCHQ, BND, hooked on American FPGAs

Intelligence services, impressed with what these integrated circuits can offer, are increasingly building FPGAs into their systems.

Africa, Israel
Gaby Peretz returns to Senegal

Gaby Peretz, head of AD Consultants (AD Con), is understood [...]

Africa, Israel
SAPNA, SIGINT consultant for African presidents

Didier Sabag, an Israeli intelligence official who was born in Casablanca and grew up in Paris, has become one of [...]

France
Patrice Caine ponders ideal cyber staff

Patrice Caine, the chief executive of Thales, described what he [...]

France, Israel
Ex-Unit 8200 chief touts Israeli Cyber know-how

Nadav Zafrir, the former head of Unit 8200, Israel's answer [...]

Israel
Shin Bet and IDF compete for cyber talent

Present at the Cybertech fair in Tel Aviv at the beginning of February, the Israeli internal intelligence service Shin Bet [...]

Israel
How the Recanati clan gained head start on cybersecurity market

The family of former Israeli banker Leon Recanati has positioned itself as one of the leading investors on the Israeli cyber market.

Spotlight | Europe
Mediterranean a new nest for (private) spies

The long-standing base of any number of government intelligence agencies operating in the Middle East, the island is now becoming a thriving hub for private firms in the business.

France
DGSE keen to catch up on tactical interception capabilities

The French external intelligence service has decided to focus on national interception solutions developed by its usual partners, rather than acquiring foreign technology.

France, Senegal
French intelligence services help Dakar with SIGINT

According to our sources, the DGSE and the French interior ministry’s intelligence services are helping their counterparts in Senegal to [...]

Israel
Mer Group markets low-cost SIGINT to Africa

The Israeli company Mer Group has probably invented the best low-cost business model to sell SIGINT, or technical intelligence equipment, [...]

France
Ercom forges ahead in interception with Wifileaks

The French company has added a WiFi interceptor to the products it markets to intelligence services.

France
Protecting government phones from NSA

In the wake of the Snowden affair a handful of French tech companies are working on telephone and text message security.

Israel's Rayzone Group makes play for DRC cyber deal

In a sign of its growing interest in Africa, the Israeli cyberintelligence firm Rayzone Group presented its interception and cybersecurity systems to a visiting delegation from the DRC recently, a few weeks after prospecting for business in Ghana and Ivory Coast.

Why Paris seized Jack Hazout's masks

The French customs hit Jacob "Jack" Hazout, a discreet French broker very active in Africa, with a fine in excess of €100,000 in late March for trying to sell FFP2 masks after the state had requisitioned all stocks of equipment of this type.

Thales installs long-range radar at unfinished bases

The French electronics company Thales has begun to install two [...]

Ex-CBG MD, Kemoko Toure, backs Aboubacar Sampil's bauxite goals

Guinean businessman Aboubacar Sampil, a close friend of President Alpha Conde who chairs the mining firm Dapilon (AMI 397), has [...]

Israeli intelligence due to deploy soon

According to security sources, Israel is planning to set up an intelligence base in the north-west of Uganda to conduct [...]