SNI Digital Ltd
Not to be confused with Black Cube, the Israeli private intelligence firm, or with BlackCore. Tel Aviv company, sister company of Galacticos
| SNI Digital Ltd
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| Type | Private company (Israel, no. 516320363) |
| Headquarters | Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Industry | Social media monitoring (reported) |
SNI Digital Ltd (SNI) is a Tel Aviv company owned mainly by Doron Afik and Guy Geyor, registered at the same address as its sister company Galacticos. Haaretz calls it "SNI – Strategic Network Intelligence Ltd." A system bearing the SNI name was found on a London server that also hosted activity of BlackCore, the outfit French authorities suspect of an influence campaign in the March 2026 municipal elections.
Name and ownership
Israeli registry data list SNI Digital Ltd (אס אן איי דיגיטל בע"מ) as an active private company, no. 516320363, at 103 HaHashmonaim Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo, the same address as Galacticos.[1][2] Haaretz gives the company's name as "SNI – Strategic Network Intelligence Ltd." and reports that its main shareholders are Afik and Geyor.[3] The registry entry found for this page records only the name SNI Digital; it has not been confirmed whether "Strategic Network Intelligence" is a former registered name or an expansion of the initials. France 3 refers to the company as SNI Digital, describes Geyor as a co-founder of "SNI Cyber", and reports that Afik heads it.[4] Agence France-Presse also reports that Afik is its director.[5]
Haaretz reports that people with "a background in intelligence or experience in technology", among them Nir Benita and Daniel David Levy, together hold less than 10 per cent of SNI and Galacticos.[3]
Domains and systems
The domain sni.ai was registered on 30 December 2021 behind a privacy service.[6] An Internet Archive capture of sni.ai from February 2024 carries marketing text for a brand and social-media monitoring service, the same text later found on galacticos.ai.[7][8] Haaretz reports that Geyor registered galacticos.ai and listed the site as belonging to SNI,[3] and Viginum likewise says that domain was registered by Geyor through SNI.[9]
BlackCore reporting
Haaretz and Libération found that BlackCore's systems appeared to share web infrastructure with sites housing the internal systems of Galacticos and SNI, and that one of the locked systems on the London server bore the SNI name.[3] On the server that hosted a BlackCore subdomain, Viginum found an API configuration pointing to a database named "sni-staging" at pg.electric-marinade.com. It says this links electric-marinade.com and omrisystems.com, and "éventuellement" (possibly) sni.ai.[9] Haaretz found "no direct connection" between Galacticos and the French operation, and the owners of both companies deny any link to BlackCore; their statements are given on the Galacticos and BlackCore pages.[3]
See also
Notes
- ↑ OpenCorporates, אס אן איי דיגיטל בע"מ (SNI DIGITAL), company no. 516320363 (Israeli Registrar of Companies data).
- ↑ OpenCorporates, גלקטיקוס בע"מ (GALACTICOS), company no. 516599818 (Israeli Registrar of Companies data).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Omer Benjakob, Revealed: An Anti-left Influence Operation in France Leads to Tel Aviv, Haaretz, 18 May 2026.
- ↑ Dominique Durand, Ingérence lors des municipales contre des candidats LFI : de BlackCore à Tel-Aviv, ce que les enquêtes de Libération et Haaretz révèlent, France 3 Occitanie, 15 May 2026.
- ↑ Le Parisien with AFP, Municipales 2026 : une mystérieuse entité israélienne derrière la campagne de dénigrement de candidats LFI, Le Parisien, 15 May 2026.
- ↑ RDAP record for sni.ai, retrieved 17 October 2026.
- ↑ Internet Archive capture of sni.ai, 17 February 2024.
- ↑ Internet Archive capture of galacticos.ai, 3 March 2025.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 VIGINUM (SGDSN), Rapport technique – Rokh Solis (Rokh Solis: technical report), Secrétariat général de la défense et de la sécurité nationale, 11 June 2026 (archived copy).