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Hybrid Warfare II – the forgotten social engineers

Articles / Cyber Security, Due Diligence, espionage, hybrid warfare, Intellectual Property, Intelligence, Reputational Risk Management, social engineering / 02/2025

The over-emphasis on cyber threats in modern warfare and corporate espionage has created a false sense of security, often sidelining traditional methods like human intelligence (HUMINT). While cyber tactics, such as hacking and malware deployment, remain effective, social engineering techniques are still very much in use by both state and commercial actors to gather intelligence. [...]

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Codename TAO – The NSA’s Mass Surveillance and Tailored Access Operations

Articles / Cyber Security, Due Diligence, Intelligence, National Security Agency, privacy, surveillance, USA / 07/2024

In this era of digital connectivity, privacy is a concept that is on the one hand prized, and on the other, severely compromised. The National Security Agency (NSA), known for being one of the largest intelligence gathering agencies in the world, has continuously found itself under intense scrutiny regarding its mass surveillance operations. Its mandate

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The Ministry of State Security – China’s secret weapon?

Articles / China, Chinese Communist Party, Due Diligence, espionage, Intelligence, legal, manufacturing, Ministry of State Security / 10/2023

You don’t have to look far to find evidence of the Ministry of State Security (MSS), China’s core intelligence agency, at work. The legal, manufacturing and intelligence sectors have MSS fingerprints all over them. The MSS has sole responsibility for China’s foreign intelligence, counterintelligence and political security. As one of the most powerful and secretive

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The power of outsourced intelligence analysis

Articles / Corporate Intelligence Services, Cyber Security, Cybercrime, Due Diligence, Fraud, Intelligence, Market Entry Research / 09/2023

In today’s fast-paced business landscape, corporations face the formidable challenge of assessing unprecedented volumes of information. Increasingly, businesses are turning to outsourced intelligence gathering professionals to collect and make sense of vital open-source intelligence on their behalf. What are OSINT and HUMINT? While governments have a long-standing history with open-source intelligence (OSINT), the commercial world

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Chinese infiltration: espionage on the increase

Articles / China, Cyber Security, Cyber-attacks, Due Diligence, espionage, Intelligence, International Security / 07/2023

The threat from within is being ignored. The intelligence community has been issuing warnings for companies doing business with China for some years. However, the situation in recent months has become far more serious, with the theft of intellectual property reaching unprecedented levels. The National Counter-intelligence and Security Centre (NCSC) recently warned of an update

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A Question of Trust

Articles / Corporate Intelligence Services, Due Diligence, evidence, Intelligence, Investigations / 09/2022

A common refrain of our always-online, always-trending society is “Pictures or it didn’t happen” – the contention that whatever eventuality or experience the author is describing, requires evidence if it is not to be dismissed as a lie. But while people tell lies on the Internet just for likes and attention, it becomes a severe

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A right Royal case of espionage

Articles / Due Diligence, espionage, Intelligence, Royals / 06/2022

Royals and espionage have gone together ever since Sun Tzu’s identification to his royal masters in the 4th century BC, of the three different types of intelligence agents he deemed necessary for subsequent military success. In the centuries since, we have seen Julius Caesar’s creation of a spy network to keep track of all the

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Codename TAO – The NSA’s Mass Surveillance and Tailored Access Operations

The Ministry of State Security – China’s secret weapon?

The power of outsourced intelligence analysis

Chinese infiltration: espionage on the increase

A Question of Trust

A right Royal case of espionage

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