China, France
How Chinese hackers infiltrated western aerospace companies

The Intelligence Gazette
Guoanbu v James Olson, Kyiv in space, White House's new European affairs director, MIT take two at Turkish foreign ministry

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

United States/ChinaChinese spymaster and ex-CIA counter-espionage director still at loggerheads

France/UkraineKyiv envoy talks space defence in Paris

United StatesNational Security Council picks new director for European affairs

TurkeyHakan Fidan takes new steps towards transforming foreign ministry into intel centre

Spotlight | China, France
Panic over Chinese consultant in French space defence sector

Starburst Aerospace, the incubator for technical innovation in the space sector, recently called in the former boss of the French branch of Chinese geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) group Head. Blacklisted in the US, Head has sold spy satellites to Russia's Wagner group.

China, United States
US tech groups stealthily absorb Chinese skills to win friends in Beijing

To navigate the tensions between China and the US, big American groups working in Beijing are beginning to employ Chinese recruits for key roles, such as those dealing with local authorities. Yet by doing so, they risk losing out on important information themselves.

China, France
Softball report on France-China relations embarrasses parliament

The Foreign Affairs Committee of France's National Assembly appears embarrassed by the upcoming publication of a very cautious report on relations between France and China. Intelligence Online was able to read the report, which only briefly mentioned security issues.

China, France
Thales and Airbus consultant Chunyan Li promotes book with help from Raffarin

Chunyan Li, a consultant who heads the Paris-based outfit Feida [...]

China, France
Sophie Zhou Goulvestre helps attract French strategic projects to Shanghai

Sophie Zhou Goulvestre, who has consulted for EDF and Société Générale, is helping Shanghai to draw in French aeronautical and artificial intelligence know-how.

China, France
Beijing drawn to French defence industry

The French defence industry's determination to remain independent from the US military-industrial powerhouse is something that China is looking to emulate.

Europe, India
Indian-Cypriot firm Lokd supplies secure smartphones and zero-day vulnerabilities

Lokd, a startup that came onto the scene earlier this year, is marketing an ultra-secure mobile operating system and also operates a zero-day vulnerabilities brokering platform.

United States
DoJ puts up cyber shield before taking on Huawei

Increasingly active in cyber espionage cases, including files implicating Chinese intelligence officials (IOL 817), the US Department of Justice (DoJ) [...]

France
Government cyber-investigators step in to help Altran

French government cyber-forensic experts are going all out to pinpoint those responsible for an attack against French technology giant Altran that came to light on June 24. Their leads point to the attack having been launched from Asia.

Russia
Kremlin keen to protect Russian industry flagships from spies

Concerned about industrial espionage in the aeronautical sector, particularly by [...]

United States
DIA helps CFIUS protect against technology theft

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is preparing to lend a hand to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United [...]

China
Beijing uses European technology to advance New Space know-how

With Western firms facing a contracting New Space market, China is beefing up its GEOINT capacity.

China
TopSec, Silk Road nations' cyber-guard

A discreet player in the cyber-offence industry, the Chinese company TopSec is aiming to provide security services to Beijing's partners in the ambitious One Belt, One Road 21st century Silk Road project.

China
Nanjing university used by MSS to lure Western experts

Highlighted by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) when a Ministry of State Security (MSS) or Guoanbu, agent was arrested [...]

China, France
Jiangsu, Guoanbu's top spot for capturing foreign technology

The Chinese ministry of state security's use of Safran's Jiangsu site as an espionage outpost has now been exposed by the American intelligence services, with help from their French counterparts.

China
Berlin and Beijing sets spying on the table

Chen Yixin, a high-ranking Chinese Communist Party (CCP) security official, and Johannes Geismann, the intelligence commissioner of the German Chancellery, [...]

Europe
Paris and Berlin mull barriers to Chinese economic spying

The German intelligence services are increasingly active against corporate intelligence-gathering by Beijing in Europe. Paris is keen to follow suit.

France
French finance ministry explores new economic security measures

With French stock-market listed companies increasingly targeted by international anti-corruption probes, the French finance ministry is looking at ways of protecting sensitive economic information.

China
Intelligence increasingly important in state apparatus

At the 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, which ended recently, President Xi Jinping set out an ideological vision [...]

United States
KeyPoint in court over OPM leaks

Keypoint, which carries out security checks on federal employees, is facing a legal spat with a group of people who have accused the company of failing to protect their personal data.

United States
Helping OPM recover from hack attack

The US federal government's human resources department is mobilising heavily to deal with the biggest data leak in its history.

China
New cyber-warfare units launch

Huang Jiwen, the new head of the 3rd Department of the People's Liberation Army, is already pursuing efforts to strengthen the army's cyber- attack capacities.