The General Security Directorate (Arabic: الامن العام, romanized: al-Amn al-'Aam) is a Lebanese intelligence agency founded on July 21, 1921 and originally known as the "first bureau".

Its primary function is to collect and gather intelligence, and to inform the Lebanese government to ensure national security and public order throughout the territory of the Republic of Lebanon.

[2] The General Security National Day as celebrated in Lebanon is on the 27th of August of each year.

[3] According to an investigation from Lookout and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the GDGS has run at least 10 campaigns since 2012 to compromise the security of Android phones in at least 21 countries.

[4][5][6] The GDGS hacking team, designated "Dark Caracal", used phising attacks to trick targets into downloading impersonations of WhatsApp, Viber and Signal, allowing the GDGS to extract gigabytes of data.