#OSINT - #NostrIntel Update for 17 June 2025

🇮🇷 Iran

➤ Launched an overnight salvo of ~150 drones and missiles targeting southern Israel. Most intercepted; minor infrastructure damage reported.

➤ State-linked hackers targeted Israeli energy grid control systems—ongoing intrusion detection and countermeasures in place.

➤ Political leadership continues framing the exchange as "state-on-state warfare."

🇮🇱 Israel

➤ Israeli air defence systems intercepted Iran’s aerial assault; civil defence warnings issued near Gaza border.

➤ Retaliatory cyber sweep conducted against Iranian command-and-control nodes.

➤ Emergency powers extended, enabling reserve mobilisation and civil-order control.

🇪🇺 EU

➤ European Parliament scheduled vote on encryption restriction amendments in two weeks.

➤ Italy and Spain now enforcing MiCA CASP licensing—Pan-EU harmonisation nearing.

➤ AI Act regulations finalised: biometric and facial recognition use limited in public spaces.

🇷🇺 Russia

➤ New wave of DDoS attacks on Baltic critical infrastructure linked to pro-Russian hacker groups.

➤ Unmanned Systems Regiment officially activated; equipment now in frontline testing.

➤ BRICS finance summit negotiates a new settlement system to bypass SWIFT.

🇺🇦 Ukraine

➤ FPV drone swarm tactics being deployed in eastern front operations.

➤ Joint cyber defence drills conducted with NATO partners; no major breaches reported.

➤ Russian-imposed capital control spill over affecting Ukrainian banking and remittances.

🇺🇸 USA

➤ FBI issues warning on Iran- and Russia-linked cyber intrusions against U.S. energy and transport sectors.

➤ ICE raids resumed in midwest; protests threatened; domestic-terror designations under scrutiny.

➤ DOJ reviewing facial-recognition standard under AI executive order framework.

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📌 Forward Triggers

➤ Israel or Iran airstrike escalation

➤ EU encryption vote outcome

➤ Russia/Baltic cyber disruption

➤ Ukraine drone ops expansion

➤ US AI—immigration policy clash