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Molfar Intelligence, together with Центр протидії дезінформації Center for Countering Disinformation, has traced how a c...
24/08/2026

Molfar Intelligence, together with Центр протидії дезінформації Center for Countering Disinformation, has traced how a civilian web studio in occupied Crimea underpins one of Russia's largest disinformation networks.

Our joint analysis examines TigerWeb, a Simferopol-based company, and its founder Yevhen Shevchenko, documenting their long-standing technical role in the Portal Kombat / Pravda ecosystem. Key findings:

A multi-year infrastructure link — from early news aggregators to the technical backbone of 150+ sites that automatically republish Russian state content in over 80 languages.

The network did not shut down after exposure. Under EU and Moldovan sanctions since 2025, TigerWeb and Shevchenko remain tied to a network that now functions as a channel for circumventing sanctions on Russian state media.

The findings are built on technical markers — shared analytics and ad codes, overlapping DNS/IP records, SSL certificates and reused APIs — and independently corroborated by VIGINUM, DFRLab and CheckFirst.

The case shows how civilian web infrastructure can quietly sustain state-scale information operations and why it warrants a coordinated response from registrars, hosting providers and platforms.

For more details, follow the link: https://lnkd.in/djtj9ivu

Ukraine's new defence export framework gives manufacturers a formal, transparent path to international markets. That cha...
08/07/2026

Ukraine's new defence export framework gives manufacturers a formal, transparent path to international markets. That changes the economics of the entire ecosystem. It also creates a new target.

Every export control regime in the world gets tested: the stronger the system, the more sophisticated the attempts to circumvent it. Our work at Molfar Intelligence sits at this intersection: we trace sanctioned networks, map ownership structures, and identify how actors exploit gaps in regulatory systems. We know what those attempts look like, because we document them.

For Ukraine, the task now is to make the new rules adversary-aware — built on the assumption that someone will actively probe them for weaknesses. Ukraine has met harder challenges in a contested environment. This one is manageable, if the ecosystem treats screening as infrastructure, not paperwork.

Our role as a private intelligence company: identifying the actors who shouldn't be at the table before they get there. We'll be watching how the framework holds up in practice and who tries to test it first.

This year's Eurosatory broke the show's own records: more than 2,600 companies, 185,000 square metres, delegations from ...
03/07/2026

This year's Eurosatory broke the show's own records: more than 2,600 companies, 185,000 square metres, delegations from close to a hundred countries. The Ukrainian pavilion grew from five companies in 2024 to more than eighty.

Ukraine's defence industry is hardened by exactly what it lacks: guarantees. Every product is tested in combat, every day, against an adversary who either proves it works or exposes that it doesn't. A brutal school. But it builds a reflex procurement cycles rarely produce: asking whether something actually works before asking how it looks on the stand.

That reflex is also our work. Molfar Intelligence is a Ukrainian private intelligence company, and we were on that floor for the same reason the manufacturers were — because the questions buyers now ask about Ukrainian partners are the questions we answer.

That is an underrated Ukrainian export. Not only the drones and the platforms — the standard that produced them: proven in use before it is put on a stand. Europe wants to learn Ukrainian speed. The rigour underneath it is worth taking too.

We shared a stand with companies building at the front edge of that standard — thanks to IRON Cluster, Farsight Vision, Генерал Черешня FPV General Cherry, Oko Camera for the days on the floor together.

We’ve partnered with Swarmer (Nasdaq: SWMR) to integrate our verified OSINT data into their autonomous systems’ AI pipel...
16/06/2026

We’ve partnered with Swarmer (Nasdaq: SWMR) to integrate our verified OSINT data into their autonomous systems’ AI pipeline.

Molfar’s intelligence methodology — built through four years of continuous operations inside an active conflict zone — now directly improves the accuracy and reliability of combat-proven autonomy platform that has supported over 100,000 missions.

Full release: https://lnkd.in/eUP9pAHq

Molfar Intelligence will be at Eurosatory 2026 in Paris 15–19 June. We're exhibiting as part of the Ukrainian pavilion (...
02/06/2026

Molfar Intelligence will be at Eurosatory 2026 in Paris 15–19 June.
We're exhibiting as part of the Ukrainian pavilion (IRON Cluster stand), alongside the defence-tech companies that have built and field-tested their products under conditions no other market can replicate.

We bring to the pavilion the analytical layer that supports procurement and investment decisions: market mapping, due diligence, sanctions and supply-chain exposure and threat analysis.If you're a defence prime, an investor, or a government buyer evaluating partners in or around this market — the questions you can't afford to get wrong are the ones we work on. Eurosatory is a good place to start that conversation in person.

James Westlake and Ievgeniia Bespalova will be on the stand C269 (Hall 5B) throughout.
Meetings fill up fast at Eurosatory — book a slot in advance:
🔗https://calendly.com/akuch-molfar/30min

Last week, Molfar Intelligence participated in the European Summit on Information Integrity and Countering Disinformatio...
01/06/2026

Last week, Molfar Intelligence participated in the European Summit on Information Integrity and Countering Disinformation at Cotroceni Presidential Palace in Bucharest, organised by România Imună under the patronage of President Nicușor Dan.

Our UK Director James Westlake spoke on the Operational Experience panel about Molfar's work countering misinformation campaigns: including our role in briefing allied governments during the first weeks of Russia's full-scale invasion and our recent investigations around Russia’s attendance at the Venice Biennale that have led directly to EU sanctions and entry bans.

Speakers were also received by President Dan, who addressed the Summit and thanked international participants for their contribution to Romania's counter-disinformation effort.

The room included representatives from EEAS, VIGINIUM, the Romanian Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Romanian intelligence services, the European Commission, and leading academic institutions from the UK, France, Sweden, and the Netherlands.

We are currently finalising a major body of research on Russian information operations — covering IPSO mechanics, bot infrastructure, and campaign-level case studies. Follow Molfar Intelligence Institute page to be notified when it’s released.

We see strong potential for collaboration with the broader European counter-FIMI community.

Caught between a rock and a hard placeOn April 13, China rolled out new counter-regulation rules that put international ...
27/04/2026

Caught between a rock and a hard place

On April 13, China rolled out new counter-regulation rules that put international businesses in a genuinely uncomfortable position. Morrison Foerster recently detailed how these measures create a framework for identifying and countering what Beijing deems "improper" foreign jurisdiction.

If your company complies with Western sanctions while operating in China, Beijing can apply asset freezing, transaction bans, license revocation, visa denials, and investment restrictions. This isn't a hypothetical. It's a real trap for any company that works with partners, suppliers, or clients across multiple jurisdictions at the same time.

A standard SDN list check won't save you. A counterparty can be perfectly acceptable from a US compliance standpoint, and at the same time create serious exposure in a Chinese context. One business relationship, three different interpretations. The cost of getting it wrong can be a lost market, a damaged reputation, or worse.

What actually helps in these situations is the full picture – a deep understanding of who is behind your partner and where their interests truly lie. In a world where compliance with one jurisdiction creates liability in another, the only defensible position is knowing exactly who you're dealing with.

A Single Source is a Rumor, Three Sources are IntelligenceOne of the biggest misconceptions in OSINT is that it’s enough...
22/04/2026

A Single Source is a Rumor, Three Sources are Intelligence
One of the biggest misconceptions in OSINT is that it’s enough to find a "smoking gun" document or a viral video. It’s not. In professional intelligence, relying on a single data point isn't research — it’s gambling with your reputation. That’s why multi-source verification is standard practice.

Think of verification like a tripod. With one or two legs, it doesn’t stand. No lead should be taken at face value — no matter how official it looks. Why? Because people lie, documents can be forged, and satellite images can be misinterpreted. Multi-source verification is the discipline of proving yourself wrong until the evidence makes it impossible.

Analysts look for independent paths that lead to the same door. For example, if we’re investigating a suspicious facility, we don't just look at a map and call it a day. We look for the “digital footprints" that shouldn't be there if the official story were true: satellite imagery showing new security perimeters; customs records showing specific parts being shipped to that address; social media posts from workers nearby or specialized job openings in the area

When you see a shipment of high-end sensors arriving on a cargo manifest, and then you see a local job ad for "radar technicians," the "noise" starts to turn into a clear picture. You didn't see the radar, but the data tells you it’s there. That’s when it stops being a guess.

In the OSINT world, being the first to post a "leak" feels good, but being the one who actually verified it is what really matters. Precision beats speed every single time. It’s not about how much data you can find; it’s about how many different ways you can prove that data is real.

The recent DOJ charges against Supermicro highlight a pattern we're seeing everywhere: sanctions evasion disguised as "p...
17/04/2026

The recent DOJ charges against Supermicro highlight a pattern we're seeing everywhere: sanctions evasion disguised as "perfect" compliance. The scheme to divert NVIDIA AI chips to China didn't involve shady back-alley deals. Instead, it relied on a sophisticated web of shell companies and intermediaries that looked completely "clean" on paper. (Sources are listed in the first comment).

This is a classic case of "compliance theatre."

On the surface, you find dummy server deployments, layered ownership, and even falsified audits. They are designed specifically to pass a basic check while masking the actual risk. What’s the result? A system where the documentation is flawless, but the verification is nonexistent.

We see this same playbook in maritime sanctions evasion all the time. Transhipment, jurisdictional arbitrage, and fragmented ownership aren't industry-specific tactics. They’re reusable strategies that adapt faster than the regulations intended to stop them.

The real issue here is structural. Export control regimes still lean too heavily on formal paperwork, but the networks they're trying to stop have already moved on to intelligence-led evasion.

To actually stop the bleeding, professional intelligence must look at the reality behind the entities, not just the names on the forms.

Sweden boarded a shadow fleet tanker last week. Found a 12 km oil slick. Released it within 24 hours – not enough eviden...
14/04/2026

Sweden boarded a shadow fleet tanker last week. Found a 12 km oil slick. Released it within 24 hours – not enough evidence to prosecute.

That's not a failure of interception. It's a failure of intelligence preparation.

The Flora 1 had changed its name up to six times and flown under up to nine different flags. Ownership was layered across jurisdictions that rarely cooperate. By the time Swedish prosecutors opened a case, the evidence trail simply wasn't there.

Building a case that holds up, including tracing ownership through shell companies, connecting flag changes to evasion patterns, and linking financial flows to sanctioned entities, requires intelligence work that starts long before a coast guard arrives. A recent investigation also revealed that shadow fleet tankers increasingly use Starlink for communications and cryptocurrency (specifically USDT distributed through digital wallets) for crew payments. The infrastructure is deliberately designed to minimize traceability.

The shadow fleet now numbers over 3,000 vessels, carrying roughly 90% of Russia's crude exports. Enforcement actions keep hitting the same wall: physical interception without prior intelligence preparation produces detained ships, not convictions. This is exactly where structured OSINT investigation changes the outcome — building verified, source-linked dossiers on vessel identity, ownership chains, and financial flows that can serve as the evidentiary foundation for criminal proceedings.

Links to news sources are in the first comment.

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