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Major players in the video game industry may like spy games, but they also love to use intelligence to track down hackers and leakers. So much so that, following several high-profile cases, gamers call these elite spies "Nintendo ninjas". At French company Ubisoft, the family-oriented corporate culture is gradually shifting towards such practices as clouds gather overhead. [...]

Since early March, French nuclear transmission networks, which lie at the heart of the country's deterrence command chain, have been targeted by several Russian cyber reconnaissance campaigns. A hacker task force operating within the orbit of Ukraine's GUR military intelligence [...]

As the administration of American President Donald Trump seeks to lure Central Asian countries away from Russia and China's sphere [...]

On 14 July last year, a dozen police raided the east London home of Darius Khan, a collector and second-hand [...]

OSINT, or open-source intelligence, is set to be debated in the French National Assembly before September 2026 with a view [...]

With the fragile ceasefire in Iran and the Gulf holding, the first assessments of Abu Dhabi's involvement in the conflict [...]

A newly-created position for a French internal security attaché in [...]

Discussions are currently underway between senior officers of the 3rd Azov Assault Brigade (now known as the 3rd Army Corps, IO, 18/08/25) and the Khartia Brigade. Beyond purely operational matters, these discrete exchanges launched several weeks ago have focused on [...]

They are one of the most closely watched R&D teams in the geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) ecosystem, whose presentation in London [...]

Riyadh - Neom builds up in-house investigations teamTroubled Saudi construction project Neom has been building up its roster of internal [...]

Officials in Manama are said to be scrutinising internal processes at IISS-Middle East, the Bahrain-based affiliate of the UK think [...]

Intelligence Online has gained access to a confidential sales presentation from Thales Alenia Space (TAS) laying out the various preparatory [...]

Intelligence Online can reveal that two European intelligence services have put Denis Puchkov, founder of LOYS law firm which has [...]

For decades, US intelligence and military communities have drawn inspiration from the world of video games, both for simulations and training purposes. But now, it is video game developers themselves, some hailing from Europe, who are at the vanguard making AI tools for US intelligence. We lift the lid on these pioneers. [...]

From Paris's perspective, the next stage of the diplomatic thaw between France and Azerbaijan aims to secure the release of [...]

Among the files that Markwayne Mullin took over when he became head of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on [...]

Intelligence Online has learnt that a highly confidential meeting took place in February between Eléonore Trigano, deputy chief of staff [...]

The Romanian political influence specialist Lucian Despoiu, who is close to Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, has set up a three-way [...]

"War is not a video game!" Democratic politicians as well as actors and influencers chimed online after President Donald Trump's [...]

A unit from Ukraine's SZRU foreign intelligence service has been in Dubai for the last few weeks closely monitoring the [...]