Lead. A peer-reviewed study has tied two years of European GPS interference to a Russian early-warning satellite, Cosmos 2546 — a confirmed, state-level, space-based denial capability. Treat satellite navigation as a convenience, not a source of truth, and carry non-GPS fallbacks.
Threat. US Central Command downed multiple Iranian attack drones aimed at shipping in the Strait of Hormuz; the corridor around Bahrain, the UAE and Oman stays an active combat zone. On the Pakistan–Afghan border, airstrikes and a TTP raid in Peshawar ended a month of calm — Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the eastern Afghan provinces are effectively non-permissive again.
Industry and regulation. Martyn's Law Commencement No. 2 brings the SIA's guidance duties into force on 15 June; the finalised section 12 guidance will set how the regulator uses its discretion, so read your clients' obligations against it early. At the World Cup, the opening day's first real test was a violent protest outside the Azteca — at this tournament, organised domestic grievance is as much the threat as terrorism or crime.
Kit. Autonomous, long-range counter-drone is moving from prototype to volume — the Pentagon has cleared CACI's SkyValor and a major maker is ramping production hard.
Also watch. Open-source reporting indicates a US strike in Venezuela killed Tren de Aragua's paramount leader, which may trigger retaliation or fragmentation across the gang's networks in the Andean region. And on the tradecraft side, deepfake-detection tooling is now being wired into external threat-management platforms — relevant to advance work against principal-impersonation and synthetic-voice social engineering.
