Daily Intel Brief
Burkina Faso's Army admits to killing civilians, the UK delays PM vote over hacking fears, and Nigeria turns up the firepower against insurgent groups...
Counterterrorism
Burkina Faso's army said on Wednesday that it had accidentally killed civilians during a counter-terrorist operation in the country's southeast earlier this week, without saying how many. Residents of the area told Reuters that as many as 37 people were killed in the strike…
The State Department has warned Americans traveling abroad that they could face retaliation and violence in the wake of a U.S. drone strike that killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. The alert, issued in a statement Wednesday, urged citizens to take…
Military & Defense
Nigeria's military will use maximum firepower to uproot the armed groups that are behind mounting insecurity in the country, the airforce said on Wednesday, amid concerns that the situation, if unchecked, could impact a general election in February. Attacks by Islamist…
China is gearing up for military exercises in the seas around Taiwan following top US politician Nancy Pelosi's trip to the island. Ms Pelosi left on Wednesday after a brief but controversial visit to Taiwan, which China regards as a breakaway province. In response…
Cybersecurity
The voting process for the next British prime minister – to be elected by Conservative Party members between former Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss – has been delayed after an alert from the country’s spies that cyber hackers could change members’…
Vulnerabilities in software that TV and radio networks around the country use to transmit emergency alerts could allow a hacker to broadcast fake messages over the alert system, a Federal Emergency Management Agency official tells CNN. A cybersecurity researcher…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
The wife of a U.S. defense contractor, who together are charged in Hawaii federal court with fraudulently cloaking themselves in the stolen identities of two deceased Texas infants for three decades, said Tuesday that she’s not the person prosecutors say she is. When the case of…
The head of Greek intelligence told a parliamentary committee his agency had spied on a journalist, two sources present said, in a disclosure that coincides with growing pressure on the government to shed light on the use of surveillance malware. The committee's closed-door…
Transnational Organized Crime
A journalist was among three people killed inside a bar in central Mexico, the 13th media worker killed in the country this year. Guanajuato Gov. Diego Rodríguez Vallejo condemned the Tuesday night killings of Ernesto Méndez and two others via Twitter Wednesday…
Philippine police launch manhunt for Bren Esports owner after busting major meth smuggling operation
The owner of the Bren Esports team, Bernard Lu Chong, is being sought by authorities in the Philippines in connection with a $33 million drug bust, the Daily Tribune reports. Chong is currently the subject of a manhunt by Philippine police due to his ties to Fortuneyield Cargo…