Counterterrorism
A terrorist stabbing attack was foiled in Hebron Sunday. The incident occurred near the Tomb of the Patriarchs when a female terrorist armed with a knife attempted to stab Israeli Border Police officers and IDF soldiers. Israeli security personnel stationed in the area…
Israeli forces carried out fresh raids Sunday in the flashpoint West Bank district of Jenin, a bastion of Palestinian militant groups and the home of gunmen who launched two recent deadly attacks. As Israel was laying to rest three recent shooting victims, gun battles rocked…
Military & Defense
After its striking post-invasion setbacks, Russia has appointed a new Ukraine war commander, a U.S. official said Sunday. Russia has turned to Gen. Alexander Dvornikov, 60, one of Russia’s most experienced military officers and — according to U.S. officials — a general…
Russian ally Serbia took the delivery of a sophisticated Chinese anti-aircraft system in a veiled operation this weekend, amid Western concerns that an arms buildup in the Balkans at the time of the war in Ukraine could threaten the fragile peace in the region. Media and military…
Cybersecurity
A hacking group used the Conti's leaked ransomware source code to create their own ransomware to use in cyberattacks against Russian organizations. While it is common to hear of ransomware attacks targeting companies and encrypting data, we rarely hear about…
China-linked adversaries have been attributed to an ongoing onslaught against Indian power grid organizations, one year after a concerted campaign targeting critical infrastructure in the country came to light. Most of the intrusions involved a modular backdoor named…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
Cybereason researchers discovered an elaborate espionage campaign using the social engineering technique catfishing to try duping high-ranking Israeli government and law enforcement officials to join fake Facebook accounts…
Days before Poland’s Independence Day in November, vandals painted the blue-and-yellow colors of the Ukrainian flag on monuments in Krakow. The vandalism, which took place as Russia massed troops near Ukraine’s border, looked as if Ukrainians were defacing…
Transnational Organized Crime
Long considered the "most peaceful country in the world", Iceland's tranquillity has been shattered by a spate of shootings and stabbings involving criminal gangs. The country of only 375,000 people is more accustomed to reading about murders in its famed Icelandic noir…
Hong Kong customs is tracking a drug syndicate behind two shipments of methamphetamine from Mexico that officers seized last month in a record haul worth about HK$400 million (US$51 million). The Customs and Excise Department revealed on Sunday that one of the…