🛰️ #OSINT Update for 3 September 2025 (CET) 🛰️ 🇺🇸 United States — AI Regulation • Cyber Defence • Crypto Oversight → Federal agencies circulated new pre-enforcement notices tied to the AI audit/certification registry for biometric and behavioural systems; large platforms instructed to finalize Q4 filings. → CISA and sector ISACs elevated advisories on deepfake-assisted credential phishing targeting energy and telecom operations; additional identity-hardening playbooks shared with operators. → FinCEN expanded supervisory outreach to high-risk MSBs after mixer/kiosk compliance gaps persisted; further enforcement actions under review. 🇪🇺 European Union & Member States — Digital Identity Wallets • MiCA • AI Governance → Member-state authorities opened the first conformity-assessment windows for EUDI Wallet providers; national audit checklists and crypto-binding rules circulated for pilot onboarding. → Supervisors advanced MiCA reporting/prudential templates for late-Q3 testing; firms notified of exposure-calculation updates. → AI transparency implementation notes for recruitment/high-risk tools moved to coordination phase ahead of autumn enforcement. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom — Immigration • Domestic Security → eVisa migration expanded to an additional cohort; biometric self-enrolment troubleshooting guidance issued to reduce failure rates. → Counter-extremism teams increased tasking on encrypted procurement chatter around improvised weapons; national threat level unchanged. 🇩🇪 Germany — Data Oversight • Export Controls • Palantir → Court calendar confirmed final hearings on law-enforcement analytics compliance; data-protection authority prepared post-ruling supervision steps. → Bundestag committee progressed a draft to lower encryption-export thresholds; industry feedback window remains open. 🇫🇷/🇪🇸 France & Spain — Biometric Data • Retail/Banking Controls → Data-protection authorities intensified spot audits of facial-recognition deployments in public kiosks and bank branches; DPIA and lawful-basis documentation requests widened. 🇮🇹/🇵🇱 Italy & Poland — Digital Identity Wallets → National programs published updated vendor timelines aligned to EUDI onboarding; pilot wallet integrations queued for Q4 conformance testing. 🇷🇺 Russia — Drone Technology • De-dollarisation • Military Posture → ISR drone detachments maintained high sortie tempo in Arctic corridors with Northern Fleet integration; air-defence reallocations noted around Black Sea facilities. → Ruble-settlement requirements extended in practice to additional quasi-public contracting lanes to deepen de-dollarisation. 🇺🇦 Ukraine — Drones • Air Defence • Cyber Resilience → Night UAV/missile activity prompted interceptions across multiple regions; localized infrastructure inspections and rapid-repair teams mobilized. → CERT-UA warned of supply-chain update abuse targeting utilities and municipalities; MFA and allow-listing controls re-emphasized. 🇮🇱 Israel — Surveillance • Cyber Defence • Intelligence → Additional AI-assisted plate/vehicle-recognition lanes activated at Gaza-adjacent checkpoints to interdict UAV component trafficking. → A targeted ransomware attempt against municipal infrastructure was contained; third-party vendor forensics ongoing. 🇵🇸 Palestine — Humanitarian Aid → Aid logistics flagged intermittent fuel and medical-oxygen constraints in Gaza; coordination cells prioritized neonatal and pediatric wards amid constrained convoy windows. 🇨🇳 China — Digital ID • Online Censorship • Surveillance → Provincial platforms accelerated national digital-ID integrations for public-service access; onboarding guidance issued to local operators. → Encrypted-DNS metadata retention and analytics programs expanded; targeted QUIC-traffic controls prompted renewed circumvention testing. 🇯🇵 Japan — Encryption • Active Cyber Defence → Final encryption-reform text retained emergency carve-outs; ministries drafting implementation guidance for operators. → Utilities/telecoms briefed on GPS-spoofing countermeasures in updated active-defence playbooks. 🇨🇦 Canada — Crypto Regulation • Border Biometrics → Consultation on MiCA-aligned stablecoin consumer-protection features continued; prototype transparency dashboards iterated with industry. → CBSA biometric-screening pilots expanded at major airports; throughput metrics used to tune staffing and lane allocations. 🇦🇺 Australia — Facial Recognition • AI Oversight → Parliamentary committees received additional evidence supporting independent audits for transit-deployed facial recognition. → Body-cam AI-tagging ethics guidance neared publication; broader rollout remains paused pending final advice. 🇰🇵 North Korea — Military Posture → Commercial-satellite monitoring indicated continued site reconfiguration at missile-production and coastal radar positions; no new launch activity confirmed. 🏦 ECB — Digital-Euro • CBDC Architecture → Eurosystem sandbox teams finalized late-summer test cases; privacy/pseudonymity and offline micro-payment parameters featured in this phase’s scenarios. 🛰️ Intelligence Agencies — NSA • CISA • BND • MSS • Mossad → Sector bulletins updated deepfake-enabled credential-theft risk models for OT environments; identity-proofing and media-ingest controls prioritized. → BND and partners tracked SIM-swap/port-out clusters targeting telecom/energy executives; port-locking and step-up verification reiterated. → Frequency-hopping telemetry observed along UAV corridors linked to Iranian supply routes; collection tasking adjusted. 🔍 Cyberattack → Coordinated spear-phishing using legal-brief lures targeted European professional-services firms; detections prevented lateral movement. → OT/ICS operators initiated accelerated asset discovery and patching cycles following updated guidance. 📌 Forward Triggers → EUDI Wallet: first national conformity-assessment notifications, pilot start dates, and wallet security advisories → MiCA: RTS/ITS milestone publications and national supervision actions → UK eVisa: biometric self-enrolment error rates and throughput impacts → Germany: court ruling on analytics tooling (Palantir-style) and regulator follow-up → Ukraine: nightly UAV/missile activity scale and confirmed grid/logistics impacts → Israel/Gaza: checkpoint analytics efficacy and utility-sector forensics summary → Australia: publication of body-cam AI-tagging ethics guidance and transit FR audit decisions → China: outcomes of QUIC-filtering circumvention tests and operator protocol adjustments → ECB: sandbox phase readouts and implications for offline/pseudonymity design 🛰️ End of report.