French chips are Russian target

The French intelligence service has moved against a Russian operation aimed at stealing Western technology. They had been watching a company named Ommic and this week arrested executives of the company together with the businessman who had majority control of the shares. Interstingly, that businessman was not Russian as you …

The Hesitant Spy

Artem Zinchenko was a GRU officer arrested by the Estonian Security Service (KAPO) in January 2017. He was sentenced to five years in prison. He had been living under cover as a businessman running a company named Dana Investments (after his wife). The company designed and sold baby equipment. In …

False Friends

Several news agencies have covered a story that a forthcoming report by the Estonian Intelligence Service predicts that Russia will try to interfere in the 2020 US Presidential election. But this is not saying much. A prediction that Russia will try to influence the 2020 election is a bit like …