Daily Intel Brief
Norway claims foreign intelligence behind drone flights, Mexican activists file Hague case over cartel disappearances, and 8 people are killed in explosions at Myanmar prison...
Counterterrorism
At least eight people have been reported killed following two explosions inside Myanmar’s high-security Insein Prison, according to media reports. The BBC’s Burmese-language news service reported that two parcel bombs had detonated on Wednesday morning, killing three…
Authorities in Saudi Arabia have released Mohammad al-Khudary, an 83-year-old senior Hamas official, after more than three years in detention, according to the Palestinian group. Izzat al-Rishiq, a member of the Hamas political bureau, said in a statement that al-Khudary…
Military & Defense
North Korea fired about 100 artillery shells around 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday from the Yonan area of southwestern South Hwanghae Province, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said. The shells fell inside the maritime buffer zone that was installed in the wake of the…
Russian forces were responsible for the “vast majority” of human rights violations in northern Ukraine during the early weeks of the war, including attacks on civilians that qualify as war crimes, the United Nations has found. In a report published on Tuesday, the three member…
Cybersecurity
Federal Police in Brazil said they arrested an alleged member of the notorious Lapsus$ hacking group on Wednesday. In a statement, police officials explained that they arrested someone in the Brazilian city of Feira de Santana. Little information was shared about…
Off-the-shelf spyware has long been associated with abuses by autocratic regimes, but in recent years it’s democracies who are reckoning with the their own potential abuse of such surveillance tools. Sophisticated digital surveillance tools were once only available to a…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
The Winnti cyber-espionage group out of China was discovered deploying the Spyder Loader malware as part of an ongoing campaign to gather intelligence information on government organizations in Hong Kong. Researchers at Symantec's Threat Hunter Team…
Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store on Wednesday accused "foreign intelligence" services of being behind a recent slew of "unacceptable" drone flights in the country, indirectly pointing the finger at Russia. Earlier Wednesday, Norwegian police had announced the arrest…
Transnational Organized Crime
Philippine officials say they have shut down at least 214 illegal Chinese offshore gambling operations and deported the first six of nearly 400 Chinese workers who have been detained under a renewed crackdown. A spate of crimes victimizing Chinese workers at illegal online…
Mexican activists filed a criminal complaint Wednesday at the International Court of Justice at The Hague, arguing authorities cooperated with or allowed drug cartels to abduct people who were never seen again. The case involves hundreds of people who disappeared in…