Daily Intel Brief
North Korea claims to have tested a 'high-thrust solid-fuel motor', thousands of previously unseen JFK assassination files have been made public, and an Irish peacekeeper was killed in Lebanon...
Counterterrorism
Pakistani authorities said at least one person was killed and 20 others, including women and children, were wounded when Afghan Taliban forces fired mortars on Thursday toward civilians near the southwestern Chaman border crossing, reflecting increasing tension…
An Irish soldier of the UN peacekeeping force in south Lebanon near the Israeli border was killed and three wounded after their convoy came under fire, Irish officials said Thursday. Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin said he was "deeply shocked and very saddened" by…
Military & Defense
Serbia on Thursday formally demanded that its security forces return to the breakaway former Serbian province of Kosovo, despite warnings from the West that such calls are unlikely to be accepted and only add to tensions in that part of the Balkans. Serbian President Aleksandar…
North Korea has tested a “high-thrust solid-fuel motor”, state media reported on Friday, as the isolated country continues efforts to develop a new strategic weapon and speeds up its nuclear and missile programmes. The test, overseen by leader Kim Jong Un, took place on Thursday…
Cybersecurity
A Chinese cyberespionage group known as MirrorFace has been observed targeting Japanese political entities ahead of the House of Councillors election in July 2022. Believed to have ties with APT10, MirrorFace is known for the targeting of academic institutions, defense…
The National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have unveiled new guidelines regarding the security risks associated with 5G network slicing and how to mitigate them. According to the document, a network slice is…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
An overseas Chinese student in the US has been charged with stalking and threatening another Chinese student who took part in pro-democracy activism on their campus. US prosecutors say Xiaolei Wu, 25, sent threats to the girl and also reported her family to…
The White House has ordered the release of thousands of documents on the murder of US President John F Kennedy in full for the first time. With the publication of some 13,173 files online, the White House said more than 97% of records in the collection were now publicly…
Transnational Organized Crime
Sanctioned Russian oligarch Suleyman Kerimov funneled at least US$28 million of his fortune into San Francisco real estate and Silicon Valley startups with the help of a covert network of U.S.-based professionals, according to a new investigation published today. The U.S.-based…
The congress of El Salvador has voted to extend President Nayib Bukele’s emergency powers to crack down on gangs for yet another month. The vote late Wednesday extends for the ninth time the measures, enacted after a surge in murders in March, and ensures they will last into…