Georgian intelligence has for months been caught up in a vast game of musical chairs, amid timely anti-corruption probes and counter-espionage proceedings. Anzor Chubinidze, the only security chief in his job since the start of Bidzina Ivanishvili’s rule, ensures the leader’s grip on security circles.
Kyiv’s military intelligence is tracking down Russian instructors from the Rubicon unit who are distributing Geran kamikaze drone user manuals in Phnom Penh and Pyongyang. Such drones have been used extensively against Ukraine.
Aqua1 Foundation, which is the largest known token investor in Trump’s World Liberty Financial crypto firm, has accused UK-registered Palm Global Technologies of owing more than $6m related to a perplexing business deal.
Locked in a power tussle with the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Public Security keeps gaining ground, especially over economic and industrial capabilities. It has just scored another victory, this time in the space sector.
The French strategic communications firm led by Matthieu Creux is hiring in its London Office. The new recruits will join experienced investigator Charles Carr.
Over the past year, Taiwan’s diplomatic service has made decisive progress in its relations with Europe by forging numerous partnerships in cutting-edge sectors. That momentum has been driven behind-the-scenes by Taiwan’s Vice-President Hsiao Bi-khim, who coordinates defence and foreign affairs.
Several European intelligence services are currently testing an AI tool that runs on a dataset from Bauman University, the Russian military intelligence academy. This tool could enable spy agencies to accurately identify potential recruits within Moscow’s intelligence apparatus.
As the country emerges as a fresh gold mine for the private security sector, Damascus’s new rulers are reorganising the sector to their liking. A man who acts as a conduit between Western security companies and the authorities appears to be playing a central role in this overhaul.
Top jobs at Chinese financial institutions are now being filled based on political criteria, as recent hirings at the country’s leading investment bank’s research arm demonstrate. This reshuffle has been accompanied by disciplinary investigations and new governance rules.
At odds over nuclear proliferation but united in the fight against terrorism, Western intelligence agencies have long had a bumpy relationship with Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). For some this has come at a very personal cost. Intelligence Online reveals one of the most dramatic and mysterious episodes involving France’s DGSE and the CIA in Pakistan.
Top British lawyer Lord Pannick provided services to China National Gold, a state owned mining concern involved in multi-billion dollar arbitration.
The Philippines’ patience is wearing thin as it waits to receive vertical-launch missiles intended for two frigates it acquired from South Korea last year. European missile manufacturer MBDA’s reputation in the region is at stake, at a time when it is bidding for other contracts there.
A Chinese private equity group has quietly moved in on the first floor of Oman’s sovereign wealth fund’s headquarter building, following financing deals with OIA in the energy and tech sectors.
Pakistan’s ruthless Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has mastered the art of putting pressure on the declared representatives of Western intelligence services. From expulsions and blown covers to skilful honey traps and the occasional slap, the ISI stops at nothing.
Published on 13/10/26 at 13:25 GMT: The withdrawal of all its military forces engaged in Iraq means that Paris is now able to redeploy its capacity to the Gulf. High on Macron’s agenda are new anti-aircraft defence deployments to support the five Gulf countries he plans to visit next week.
After establishing a new political platform in which the more powerful ethnic armed forces are most prominent, the Burmese resistance is now focusing on intelligence. Covert operations have shifted to building networks of informants and a joint intelligence framework is being set up.
Recent upheavals within the US administration are now impacting the private sector, contributing to the emergence of consultancy services offering support to governments and businesses in tackling information manipulation.
At least eight naval drones from the British company Kraken have been deployed to Ukraine’s domestic intelligence agency, Intelligence Online can reveal. These platforms, which were used in strikes on Sochi in September, are being tested in the Black Sea with the support of UK operators.
The death of a research scientist in Irkutsk in early October forced the FSB to operate out in the open where it usually prefers to remain undetected. Over the last few years, the security service has seen its role strengthened in the fight against epidemics, high-risk laboratories and international cooperation over the plague and other pathogens handled by the deceased researcher.
The owner of Aqua1 Foundation, the company that invested $100m in World Liberty Financial, was a member of the 48 Group, a London-based club suspected of having links to the Chinese government.
Formidable to foreign intelligence services and their spies stationed in Pakistan, the ISI is also feared within the country’s own intelligence apparatus. As all-powerful military chief Asim Munir’s enforcement arm, the agency has asserted itself as the only one able to safeguard national security.
South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean’s contract with the Royal Thai Navy for its future frigate is under serious threat due to budgetary constraints and looming legal risks.
All-powerful at home, closer than ever to Washington, and still an ally of Beijing, Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence appears to be riding high. A favourable context for the country’s strongman Asim Munir to turn his full attention to the enduring existential threat from neighbouring India.
This week, Intelligence Online paid a visit to Le Président, an iconic Chinese restaurant in the Belleville neighbourhood of Paris.
A high-level Indonesian defence delegation is expected to visit the French capital in early November, providing an opportunity for France to revive sluggish bilateral contracts between both countries.
The recent resignation of influential US ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle, who was close to Donald Trump, has taken place as Washington continues to push two important energy deals in southeastern Europe. Her ousting is likely to play in favour of her counterpart in Ankara.
The aircraft manufacturer, which has taken over the French cybersecurity firm, hopes to persuade its government clients to make greater use of its audit and reverse engineering services, which are grouped under the QLabs brand.
As well as scaling back its course offerings, the new National Intelligence College, which has been taken over by the Pentagon, remains without a director. Yet there is no shortage of candidates.
The new Israeli start-up Senaï caused a stir among cyber-intelligence specialists at the latest ISS exhibition this month. Developing an AI tool that analyses videos on TikTok and Instagram, it is run by several Franco-Israelis who previously worked for industry giants such as NSO, Cognyte and Voyager Labs.
Concerned about a possible resurgence of IS in Syria, the French and British intelligence services are stepping up exchanges with their Syrian counterparts. Meanwhile, Damascus is making gestures of goodwill towards the West and has requested its assistance.
Published on 19/10/26 at 15:00 GMT: The French DNRT territorial intelligence agency, which vastly underestimated the scale of the protests in France on Saturday which were followed by rioting and looting across the country, finds itself under intense scrutiny. All the more so after President Emmanuel Macron highlighted “failures in foresight and intelligence” in his national televised address on Sunday.
A Singapore-based company offering surveillance solutions appears to be linked, through its shareholder, to a Vietnamese group that is in the Ministry of Public Security’s good books.
The deputy director of the international department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party has chosen Reykjavik as the first stop on his European tour, scheduled for later this month.
The French intelligence systems integrator is fine-tuning its “DSLR Sentinelle MK1” aerial platform outside the DGA procurement agency’s official Medium-Altitude, Long-Endurance (MALE) programme. Specialising in electronic intelligence, Asman Technology’s drone has just begun ground roll-out tests ahead of its maiden flight.
Drastic staff cuts at the strategic CASI institute resulting in its near-certain closure have set alarm bells ringing among experts in Washington and in Congress who rely on its specialist research into the Chinese military.
France’s 2027 draft budget reveals the French intelligence services’ degree of technical cooperation with other European agencies. Most of their current programmes are designed to support a major shift towards Eastern and Northern Europe.
Appointments, financial results, new contracts: every Wednesday, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community.
Narrowing in on a decision for its next consignment of fighter jets, the Royal Airforce of Oman (RAFO) has been in discussions for a deal on the JF-17 Thunder with Beijing and Islamabad, Intelligence Online has learnt.
The former head of the French luxury brand’s security, Gaël Marchand, is also a Freemason who has steadily risen through the order’s ranks. During his time at Louis Vuitton, he commissioned one of the company’s consultants to carry out at least one internal investigation into the French Masonic Grand Lodge.
India and Bangladesh are keen to resume talks on water-sharing and cross-border cooperation, despite India having granted asylum to the former Bangladeshi leader, who was ousted from power by protests in August 2024.
The rift between Kyiv and Warsaw has not prevented Polish defence contractors from being in contact with the Ukrainian front line. WB Electronics supplies the elite Omega unit with FlyEye drones, while former Formoza commandos are contributing to the fight against Russian drones.
Gary Zimmerman, who once did business with Pentagon and was later involved in an intriguing privatisation scheme in the telecoms sector in Uzbekistan, has now joined IKA, a tech company with links to the small island nation’s ruling family.
Senior staff at the French foreign intelligence agency feel they are not being given their fair share of management and executive posts.
As well as scaling back its course offerings, the new National Intelligence College, which has been taken over by the Pentagon, remains without a director. Yet there is no shortage of candidates.
Concerned about a possible resurgence of IS in Syria, the French and British intelligence services are stepping up exchanges with their Syrian counterparts. Meanwhile, Damascus is making gestures of goodwill towards the West and has requested its assistance.
At least eight naval drones from the British company Kraken have been deployed to Ukraine’s domestic intelligence agency, Intelligence Online can reveal. These platforms, which were used in strikes on Sochi in September, are being tested in the Black Sea with the support of UK operators.
Drastic staff cuts at the strategic CASI institute resulting in its near-certain closure have sent alarm bells ringing among experts in Washington and in Congress who rely on its specialist research into the Chinese military.
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