Poland’s Starlink Fire: The Arrests Are Only Part of the Story
Poland’s latest Starlink investigation includes a separate reconnaissance suspect. The arrests matter; identifying who commissioned the work matters just as much.
Berlin Closes a Consulate. Vienna Issues a Press Release.
On Tuesday morning the German government stood up and did something European governments almost never do. It named the perpetrator. The explosive-laden drone found near a Ukrainian cargo plane at Leipzig/Halle Airport on the night of 4 August was, according
Seven Years of Deliveries, One Arrest
On Monday, 10 August, the Interior Ministry put out a press release announcing a success.
Six and a Half Years to Say the Obvious: What the Turla Attribution Tells Us About Austria
On 14 July 2026 the Russian ambassador was summoned to the Foreign Ministry at Minoritenplatz.
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Poland’s Starlink Fire: The Arrests Are Only Part of the Story
Poland’s latest Starlink investigation includes a separate reconnaissance suspect. The arrests matter; identifying who commissioned the work matters just as much.
Berlin Closes a Consulate. Vienna Issues a Press Release.
On Tuesday morning the German government stood up and did something European governments almost never do. It named the perpetrator. The explosive-laden drone found near a Ukrainian cargo plane at Leipzig/Halle Airport on the night of 4 August was, according to Berlin,
Seven Years of Deliveries, One Arrest
On Monday, 10 August, the Interior Ministry put out a press release announcing a success. The DSN had dismantled an international network of companies that moved sanctioned industrial goods to Russia through a firm registered in Vienna. Machine tools and special metalworking
Six and a Half Years to Say the Obvious: What the Turla Attribution Tells Us About Austria
On 14 July 2026 the Russian ambassador was summoned to the Foreign Ministry at Minoritenplatz. The reason goes back six and a half years: the cyberattack on the ministry around New Year 2019/2020, an incident that kept the Austrian federal administration busy
Vienna Buys the Bidstream
Austria has renewed a licence for a surveillance system built on advertising data. Nobody in government will say under what legal authority, and the data protection regulator was never asked. A procurement notice on Austria’s public tender portal records the extension of
Austria’s Spyware Law Goes Before the Judges. The Real Question Is Who Sells the Exploit.
On June 22 the Austrian Constitutional Court will sit in public session and hear arguments about whether the state may read your Signal messages. The hearing starts at 9:30 in the morning. I expect the courtroom to be full and the answers
Vienna’s Antenna Forest and Austria’s Quiet Course Change
There is a stretch of road in Vienna’s 22nd district, just off the U1 metro line, where you can stand on one side of a small park and see the Russian diplomatic compound on the left and the UN City complex on
The “Between Peace and War” Doctrine Has an Austrian Problem
The day the White House announced it was withdrawing the United States from the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats, I happened to be in a meeting with a contact at the Federal Police in Vienna. He glanced at the
Austria Finally Drafts a Real Espionage Law. The Ott Trial Will Decide Whether It Matters.
Austria has spent the better part of half a century letting foreign intelligence officers run operations from its capital, because the law, quite literally, does not care as long as the target is somebody else. Section 256 of the Criminal Code criminalises
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