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3544 entities tracked across Lowdown briefings. Page 30 of 60.

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Keio CorporationJPTokyo rail, bus and property group.
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Keio Plaza HotelJPTokyo hotel chain owned by Keio Corporation.
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KembaraGBInvestment vehicle that co-led Quantum Motion's Series C; limited public profile.
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KEMRIKEKenya’s national health-research institute; helped confirm the country’s imported Bundibugyo Ebola case.
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Kent County CouncilGBReform UK's 2025 flagship at 57 of 81 seats, since reduced to 47 by departures.
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Kenya Ministry of HealthKEKenya’s national health ministry; led detection, tracing and coordination of the 2026 Ebola chain.
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Kenya National Virology Reference LaboratoryKEKenyan reference laboratory that helped confirm the country’s imported Bundibugyo Ebola case.
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Kenya Power and Lighting CompanyKEKenya's national electricity distribution and retail utility, responsible for transmitting and selling power to industrial and residential customers.
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KEPCOKRKorea Electric Power Corporation, South Korea's state-controlled national electricity transmission and distribution utility.
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KERA NewsDallas NPR member station news service, licensed to North Texas Public Broadcasting Inc.
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Kerv.aiUSAI ad-tech company powering WBD's scene-level contextual ad targeting on Max and discovery+.
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KETEKDEMunich-based maker of specialised industrial semiconductors.
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KfWDEGermany's national promotional bank, one of the world's largest state development banks.
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KfW IPEX-BankDEGermany's state export and project-finance bank; first post-Brexit co-investor with a UK sovereign vehicle.
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Khatam al-AnbiyaIRIRGC construction and engineering conglomerate; one of Iran's largest contractors and sanctions targets.
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Khatam al-Anbiya Central HeadquartersIRCentral command of Iran's armed forces, ranking above both the IRGC and Artesh.
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Khosla VenturesUSUS venture capital firm founded 2004 by Vinod Khosla; backs frontier and deep technology.
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KillnetPro-Russian hacktivist group known for denial-of-service attacks on Western targets.
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KillSecRansomware group active since about 2024 whose leak site police seized in September 2026.
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KimwolfCAIoT botnet alleged to have enslaved over a million consumer devices and produced a record ~30 Tbps distributed denial-of-service flood targeting US Department of Defense address ranges.
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King's College LondonRussell Group university in London; hosted John Major's 2026 Attlee Foundation lecture on electoral reform
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Kirishi refineryRUKINEF refinery near St Petersburg processing 6.6% of Russian output; forced offline.
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Kirklees Metropolitan Borough CouncilGBWest Yorkshire local authority covering Huddersfield and Almondbury.
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KJZZUSPhoenix-based Arizona Public Radio station; primary source on Iran Tucson training preparations.
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KKRUSA US private equity firm, formally Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.
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Klaris LawUSUS media law firm representing publishers in copyright litigation against AI developers.
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KlarnaSESwedish BNPL fintech that publicly admitted AI could not replace 700 human customer service agents.
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KLA-TencorUSUS chip metrology and process-control equipment maker; its German arm is KLA-Tencor MIE.
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Kleiner PerkinsUSSilicon Valley VC founded 1972; backed Google, Amazon, Anthropic and co-led Granola's 2026 Series C.
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KNDSDEKrauss-Maffei Wegmann and Nexter Defence Systems, a Franco-German land-systems and artillery defence group.
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KNDS FranceFRFrench KNDS subsidiary; one of 29 partners in the EU's iMUGS2 ground-robot programme.
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KNDS GermanyDEGerman KNDS subsidiary, legally distinct from KNDS France; also an iMUGS2 ground-robot consortium partner.
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KnessetILThe parliament of the State of Israel, a 120-seat unicameral legislature that enacts law and oversees the government.
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Knowledge Ecology InternationalUSNGO campaigning on access to medicines; proposed new pathogen benefit-sharing text at IGWG7.
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KnownHostUSWeb hosting provider whose telemetry dated cPanel exploitation to 23 February 2026, confirming the 65-day zero-day.
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Koalicja ObywatelskaPLPoland's governing centre-right coalition party.
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Koch networkUSThe Koch network is the cluster of political and advocacy organisations funded primarily by Charles Koch, historically the largest source of conservative dark money in US elections.
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Kodiak RoboticsUSUS autonomous trucking firm providing self-driving stack for military ground vehicles.
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KongsbergNONorwegian defence and maritime group; lead supplier in Europe's AUKUS Pillar II undersea-warfare bid.
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Kongsberg ListenKongsberg's commercial subsea unit selling HUGIN autonomous underwater vehicles to offshore survey customers.
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Korea Ministry of Oceans and FisheriesKRSouth Korea's government ministry responsible for maritime affairs, shipping policy, and the welfare of Korean seafarers abroad.
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Korean AirKRSouth Korea's flag carrier airline, whose aerospace division builds military drones in Busan.
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Korea Shipowners' AssociationKRSouth Korea's national trade association representing ocean-going shipowners.
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KOR FinancialGBUK regulatory technology firm publishing REMIT II deadline analysis for energy market participants.
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KPKIDIndonesia's independent anti-corruption commission with prosecutorial authority over public officials.
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KplerBrussels-headquartered commodity data company tracking shipping, trade and energy markets.
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Kraft GroupUSOwnership group of Gillette Stadium and the New England Patriots, suing Foxborough over security costs.
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Kraken TechnologiesGBIndependent utility software company founded within Octopus Energy.
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Kraken Technology GroupGBBritish maritime-autonomy firm; builds Royal Navy K3 SCOUT USVs, valued at $1bn since July.
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Kratos Unmanned SystemsUSKratos Defense subsidiary producing the XQ-58A Valkyrie collaborative combat aircraft.
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Krebs on SecurityUSInvestigative cybersecurity journalism site run by Brian Krebs; primary source for the Kimwolf arrest reporting.
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KremlinSeat of Russian presidential power; directing the Ukraine war while serving as Iran's last great-power interlocutor.
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Kremniy ElRURussian military microelectronics plant in Bryansk; struck by Storm Shadow in March.
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Kroenke Sports & EntertainmentUSStan Kroenke's sports empire; operates SoFi Stadium, co-named in UNITE HERE's ICE demand letter.
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KryBitKryBit is a ransomware group that dropped from Bitdefender's top ten in June 2026 following increased law-enforcement visibility.
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KSE InstituteUAKyiv-based think tank publishing the Russian Oil Tracker and Shadow Fleet monthly data since 2022.
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KT CloudKRSouth Korean cloud and data-centre company in the KT group.
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KukunMXMexico City's second-largest commercial short-let operator with 568 Airbnb-listed units, registered as a company and exempt from the three-property-per-individual-host cap.
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Kurdistan Human Rights NetworkNONorway-registered Kurdish human rights NGO; parent of Hengaw; tracks Iran executions and detentions.
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Kuwait AirwaysKWKuwait's flag carrier, which rescheduled flights after its airport shut under attack.