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Britain's spies-for-hire are running wild


Lucrative, freewheeling — and largely unregulated — private intelligence and security firms are booming in the land of James Bond and John le Carré.

Security Minister Dan Jarvis raises prospect of U.K. hitting back with its own cyber attacks in POLITICO interview. Report by Britain’s intelligence watchdog urges government to get serious about Iran-backed attacks on dissidents and critics of the state. Calls for tightening of bloc’s sanctions regime after Kontron was able to export millions in sensitive telecoms tech to its Russian arm in late 2023.

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