Ozan Akyol

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

August 16, 2026

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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

August 5, 2026

Analysis·Europe·Intelligence·OSINT

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

July 27, 2026

Europe·Intelligence

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

June 12, 2026

Analysis·Europe·Intelligence

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

May 30, 2026

Europe

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

May 11, 2026

Europe·Intelligence·Security

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

April 26, 2026

Intelligence·OSINT·Security

Open Source, Ignored: Why Europe Must Get Serious About Social Media Threat Monitoring Before the Next School Attack

On April 15, 2026, a 14-year-old student walked into Ayser Çalık Middle School in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, carrying five firearms and seven magazines. By the time it was over, nine people were dead. One of them was a math teacher named Ayla Kara,

April 16, 2026

Analysis·Intelligence

AI Broke the Criminal Profile. Now What?

How artificial intelligence is rewriting the rules of criminal behavior, and why the profiler’s playbook needs a fundamental reset. Criminal profiling has always rested on one core assumption: criminals are creatures of habit. They leave behavioral signatures. They escalate predictably. Their psychology

March 26, 2026

Analysis·Intelligence·Worldwide

The First Cyber War: How Digital Intelligence Shaped Operation Epic Fury

I’ve been covering cyber threats for years now, and I’ve sat through countless conference panels where retired generals talk about “the coming cyber war.” Always in the future tense. Always hypothetical. That era is over. On February 28, the US and Israel

March 16, 2026

Seven Years of Deliveries, One Arrest

Six and a Half Years to Say the Obvious: What the Turla Attribution Tells Us About Austria

Vienna Buys the Bidstream

Austria’s Spyware Law Goes Before the Judges. The Real Question Is Who Sells the Exploit.

Vienna’s Antenna Forest and Austria’s Quiet Course Change

The “Between Peace and War” Doctrine Has an Austrian Problem

Austria Finally Drafts a Real Espionage Law. The Ott Trial Will Decide Whether It Matters.

Open Source, Ignored: Why Europe Must Get Serious About Social Media Threat Monitoring Before the Next School Attack

AI Broke the Criminal Profile. Now What?

The First Cyber War: How Digital Intelligence Shaped Operation Epic Fury

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