Daily Intel Brief
Al-Shabaab launches an attack on a hotel in Mogadishu, the U.S. bans major Chinese telecom companies, and coalition forces are targeted in Syria...
Counterterrorism
Al-Shabaab militants attacked a hotel near the presidential palace in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday, police and witnesses said, with explosions and gunfire heard in the city centre. "A team of Al-Shabaab fighters attacked a commercial hotel in Bondhere district…
A former student armed with a semiautomatic pistol and a revolver who killed four people and wounded 12 in two schools in Brazil had a swastika pinned to his vest and had been planning the attacks for two years, police said. The shootings took place Friday at a public…
Military & Defense
The United States military has reported two rocket attacks targeting its patrol base in northeastern Syria, but said there were no injuries to its forces. In a statement, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said the attacks “targeted coalition forces” at its base in…
Russia's attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure amount to genocide, a top Ukrainian official says. Strikes on key facilities targeted "the full Ukrainian nation" and were an effort to force Kyiv to surrender, the prosecutor-general told the BBC. The term genocide refers to…
Cybersecurity
New ransomware attacks targeting organizations in Ukraine first detected this Monday have been linked to the notorious Russian military threat group Sandworm. Slovak software company ESET who first spotted this wave of attacks, says the ransomware they named…\
The British government has banned departments from installing at sensitive locations surveillance cameras manufactured by Chinese companies due to potential information security issues, and is facing calls to ban them entirely from the public sector…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
The U.S. on Friday banned the import and sale of new telecommunication equipment from Huawei, ZTE and three other Chinese companies, citing concerns over national security. The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) adopted new final rules under which the U.S…
The Security Service of Ukraine [SSU] is conducting a counterintelligence security operation within the diocesan administration and the cathedral of the local diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) in Ivano-Frankivsk…
Transnational Organized Crime
Honduras on Sunday sent more than 600 military police officers to its borders with El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua as part of a state of emergency declared against criminal gangs in the Central American nation, police told AFP. The small country has long been…
It might have seemed like a “Three Stooges” routine, except the stakes were much higher for accused migrant smuggler Jose Quinonez-Lopez and the Border Patrol agent he was trying to escape. After a chase, the agent caught up with Mr. Quinonez-Lopez and was straddling him…