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2680 entities tracked across Lowdown briefings. Page 26 of 45.

McAfee Enterprise

Enterprise cybersecurity vendor acquired by STG; merged with FireEye to form Trellix in 2022.

Global management consultancy; contracted by ERCOT to develop a framework for managing its 225 GW large-load backlog.

Mine countermeasures: naval vessels and techniques that detect and neutralise sea mines.

Canadian aerospace company building Canadarm3 under a $1 billion Gateway contract.

Argentine online news outlet based in Mendoza.

Médecins Sans FrontièresInternational medical humanitarian NGO; front-line Ebola responder whose surge capacity grows critical as USAID retreats.

MediánHungarian independent pollster; final pre-election poll showed Tisza leading Fidesz 58% to 33%, a 25-point gap.

US trade publication covering digital advertising, media buying, and marketing strategy for industry professionals.

Russian exile investigative outlet; publishes the war's most-cited verified casualty count.

Medical Incubator Japan

Japanese biotech incubator and investor; participated in Cytospire's £61m Series A.

Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

UK regulator for medicines, medical devices and blood components.

Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC)

World's largest container line; MSC Francesca seized by IRGC, MSC Sariska V holed in 2026.

MedusaLockerMedusaLocker is a ransomware-as-a-service group that rebranded as Bavacai in mid-2026, entering the Bitdefender ransomware top ten under the new name.

Exiled Russian-language outlet in Riga; Russia's leading verified source on wartime dissent and casualties.

Meentropy Technology HangzhouHangzhou AI and optics firm, also known as Mizarvision; designated for Iran arms links, 8 May 2026.

MEHDI GROUP is an Iranian entity identified by OFAC as linked to the crude tanker RISE GLORY and designated under the SDGT counter-terrorism programme on 28 May 2026.

Mehr News Agency

Iranian state-supervised news agency; primary distribution channel for IRGC and MFA official statements.

Iranian opposition group in exile; designated terrorist by Iran, based in Albania since 2016.

Spain's largest hotel group; exiting Cuban hotels and now exposed to US confiscated-property suits.

Memphis A. Philip Randolph Institute

Memphis chapter of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, co-plaintiff challenging Tennessee's redrawn map.

German premium carmaker headquartered in Stuttgart.

Mercia Ventures

UK venture capital firm; backed Risk Ledger's £24m Series B alongside Axiom Equity.

US pharmaceutical company, known as MSD outside the US and Canada.

South Atlantic news agency covering Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Falkland Islands affairs.

Global social media and AI company committing $125-145 billion to AI infrastructure in 2026.

Meta Superintelligence Labs

Meta's new AI-native division, reorganising the company's engineering around superintelligence.

Metropolitan Development Commission

Indianapolis body that regulates zoning, including data-centre siting.

Metropolitan Police

London police force that dropped the sexual-assault case against FIFA VAR official Rob Dieperink for insufficient evidence.

Abu Dhabi state-backed AI investment vehicle; co-invested in Isomorphic Labs' Series B.

MicelioDataGAIA-X member organisation enabling traceable, sovereign textile supply chain data across European industry.

Global software and cloud giant; Azure, M365, Intune; DMA probe and US cloud sovereignty risk.

Mid Cambridgeshire

Proposed unitary council named in the alleged option D for Cambridgeshire reorganisation.

Middle East Eye

London-based independent news outlet covering the Middle East, known for primary-source Gulf and Tehran reporting.

Middle East Institute

Washington DC-based think tank focused on Middle East policy analysis.

Midlands Mindforge

First multi-university spinout fund covering the English Midlands, backed by eight universities, UKRI, DSIT and the Rigby Group.

Milrem Robotics

Estonian UGV maker; produces THeMIS; first non-Estonian line opened in Netherlands for Ukraine.

Milwaukee Riverkeeper

Wisconsin environmental advocacy group that litigated to force the release of Microsoft's Mount Pleasant campus water use data suppressed under a city NDA.

Ministerio de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias: Cuba's armed forces ministry; parent of GAESA and the principal military-economic institution; designated under EO 14404 on 4 June 2026.

Cuba's Ministry of the Interior; designated under EO 14404; administers state security and the island's record 1,281 political prisoners.

Ministerio de Vivienda y Agenda Urbana

Spain's Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda, the government department responsible for national housing policy, rental regulation, and urban planning.

Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs

French foreign ministry, expelling Iranian embassy staff over the Tehran arrests.

Ministry of Communications

Iranian ministry controlling internet infrastructure; enforced 2026's record blackout, now runs Chinese-built switchable censorship.

Ministry of External Affairs (India)

India's foreign ministry; stayed publicly silent for seven days on US sanctions naming Indian nationals in Iran oil networks.

Ministry of Finance and Prices (Cuba)

The Cuban government ministry that set the new bottled and piped gas pricing under Resolution 155/2026 and 156/2026.

Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government (MHCLG)

UK department running local government reorganisation and Reform-commissioner standoffs across England.

Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development

Saudi Arabia's ministry for labour policy, sponsorship regulation and Saudisation; operates the Qiwa digital labour platform.

Ministry of Internal Affairs (Georgia)

Georgian ministry enforcing foreign-worker inspections, protest-deportation powers, and the 1 May fine ladder.

Ministry of Migration (Greece)

Greek ministry responsible for Digital Nomad Visa processing under Law 5275/2026.

Ministry of Tourism (MINTUR)

Cuba's Ministry of Tourism, the largest tourism-sector player outside GAESA, designated on 13 July with no OFAC wind-down guidance.

Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs; state's diplomatic voice on sanctions, indictments, and prisoner talks

Mirasvit is a Magento extension vendor whose Full Page Cache Warmer module contained the PHP object-injection flaw CVE-2026-45247.

Midcontinent Independent System Operator, managing electricity transmission across 15 US states and Manitoba.

Mission of Japan to the EU

Japan's diplomatic mission in Brussels; coordinates Japan–EU policy on trade, digital governance and security.

French AI lab; sovereign models deployed at Airbus, BMW, CMA CGM; EU cloud and military contracts.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a leading US research university.

MIT Sloan School of Management

The business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, home to influential labour economics and management research.

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines

Japanese shipping giant whose LNG carrier was first Japan-linked vessel to pay Iran's Hormuz toll.

Iranian news agency affiliated with the judiciary; attributed Lavan refinery strike to UAE Mirage jets.

Japanese investment bank whose analyst flagged rising leverage risk across AI infrastructure lenders.

Cuba-Canada nickel and cobalt joint venture in Holguín province; dual-tagged [CUBA] and [CUBA-EO] on the OFAC SDN list.