Daily Intel Brief
The FBI opens up investigations into pro-abortion attacks, China launches missiles into the Taiwan Strait, and WNBA star Brittney Griner is sentenced to 9 years in a Russian jail...
Counterterrorism
The Central Intelligence Agency’s killing of al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has thrust the global terrorist group into a succession contest that will test its ties to far-flung affiliates and could give Iran a role in the outcome. The candidate seemingly in line to lead al Qaeda is an…
The FBI has launched “domestic violent extremism investigations” into pro-abortion rights threats and attacks that have increasingly targeted anti-abortion groups in the past few months, Director Christopher Wray testified Thursday. Since the May leak of a draft of the…
Military & Defense
The Israeli military said Thursday it is sending additional forces to the area around the Gaza Strip as it braces for possible attacks after the arrest of a senior militant in the West Bank this week. Authorities closed roads and other areas around Gaza after a raid Monday night…
China conducted “precision missile strikes” Thursday in waters off Taiwan’s coasts as part of military exercises that have raised tensions in the region to their highest level in decades following a visit by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. China earlier announced that military…
Cybersecurity
The Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK) was forced to shut down all of its IT systems and switch off digital services, telephones, and email servers, in response to a cyberattack. DIHK is a coalition of 79 chambers representing companies…
Public billboards and screens in convenience stores across Taiwan were hacked to display anti-Nancy Pelosi statements in response to the US House Speaker's visit on Tuesday. The "unprecedented" cyber attack came after Beijing warned "forceful measures" would be taken…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
A new Russian satellite, dubbed Kosmos 2558, took a ride on a Russian Soyuz-2.1v rocket on Monday, apparently destined for life as a spy satellite. Russia launched the satellite into the same orbital plane as USA 326, an American military satellite that launched into low-Earth…
Meta says that it's continuing to crack down on bad actors across its social media sites. The company, which owns Facebook and Instagram, reported Thursday that it had taken down a Russia-based troll farm from Instagram earlier this year that had been churning out phony…
Transnational Organized Crime
Few live in Canada’s frigid and wild Yukon province, a nearly 200,000 mile stretch of land wedged between the Alaska and the Arctic Circle, yet organized crime is growing in the region, according to a recent report by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Force (RCMP)…
U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner was convicted Thursday in Russia of drug possession and smuggling and was sentenced to nine years behind bars in a politically charged case that could lead to a high-stakes prisoner exchange between Washington and Moscow. The 31-year-old…