Daily Intel Brief
The UK is worried as Brits are recruited to train PLA pilots, Germany fires their cybersecurity chief after exposed Russian ties, and the US Air Force intercepts 2 Russian bombers near Alaska...
Counterterrorism
The Taliban captured, bound, and shot to death 27 men in Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley last month during an offensive against resistance fighters in the area, according to a report published Tuesday, refuting the group’s earlier claims that the men were killed in battle…
Pakistani security forces shot and killed four insurgents on Tuesday during a raid on their hideout in the country's volatile southwest, authorities said. According to a statement by the Counter-Terrorism Department, the raid took place in the Kharan district, 350 kilometers…
Military & Defense
Britain's Defense Ministry said Tuesday it has issued an intelligence alert warning former and current military pilots against Chinese headhunting programs aimed at recruiting them to train the People's Liberation Army. Armed forces minister James Heappey said authorities…
The U.S. Air Force dispatched two F-16 fighter jets to intercept a pair of Russian bombers that flew close to Alaska on Monday, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said in a statement. Though the two Russian Tu-95 Bear-H bombers did not enter American or…
Cybersecurity
Germany’s government has sacked its cybersecurity chief after reports of possible ties with Russian intelligence. An interior ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday that Arne Schoenbohm had been relieved of his duties as president of the Federal Office for…
Tensions between the US, China, and Taiwan have far-reaching impacts beyond semiconductor saber-rattling and trade restrictions. There is an enterprise security angle that CISOs should be on guard to tackle, according to US intelligence. NSA Director of…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad is believed to be behind the abduction of a Palestinian man who was snatched from a street in the capital Kuala Lumpur and interrogated before being freed by police, a Malaysian news organisation has reported. Malaysia’s New Straits…
The leader of Poland’s largest opposition party on Tuesday called on the country’s ruling party to fully clarify the facts surrounding an eight-year-old scandal involving the illegal recordings of top politicians and coal imports from Russia. Donald Tusk said it has long been clear that…
Transnational Organized Crime
A court in New York has sentenced an infamous Colombian paramilitary leader and drug kingpin to 35 years in jail. Daniel Rendón Herrera, better known as Don Mario, led the right-wing paramilitary group United Self-Defence Forces (AUC). The group, originally formed…
More than 100 Haitian migrants have been found on an uninhabited island near Puerto Rico, United States authorities said, as Haiti continues to reel from a humanitarian crisis brought on by surging gang violence. Park rangers working for the Puerto Rico Department of…