Counterterrorism
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Tuesday that France will continue the fight against Islamist militants in the Sahel region and also supports Gulf of Guinea countries in a bid to stop militants crossing borders with these countries. The fight against terrorism…
A Kansas man accused of threatening President Joe Biden and multiple U.S. Secret Service agents is set to appear in a Baltimore federal courtroom on Wednesday, where a judge will decide whether he should be detained pending trial. Prosecutors allege that Scott Ryan…
The United Nations has received “credible allegations” that more than 100 former members of the Afghan government, its security forces and those who worked with international troops have been killed since the Taliban took over the country Aug. 15, Secretary-General Antonio…
Military & Defense
The United States has made clear to Sudan's military leaders that Washington is prepared to impose additional costs if violence against protesters continues and is looking at options to increase pressure, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Molly Phee said…
The table tennis coach, the chaplain’s wife, the dentist and the firebrand nationalist have little in common except a desire to defend their hometown and a sometimes halting effort to speak Ukrainian instead of Russian. The situation in Kharkiv, just 40 kilometers (25 miles) from…
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmygal and his Polish counterpart, Mateusz Morawiecki, said Tuesday that they were working with Britain to boost three-way cooperation in the face of "Russian aggression." The announcement came as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson…
Cybersecurity
A major fuel supplier in Germany is operating at a "limited capacity" after a cyber-attack disrupted IT systems at the weekend. Oiltanking Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG stores and transports oil, vehicle fuels and other petroleum products for companies like Shell…
The FBI’s cyber division warned in a private industry notification dated Monday that cyber actors could “disrupt” the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics set to start on Friday, in addition to next month’s Paralympics. “The FBI is warning entities associated with the February 2022…
Telehealth care is on the rise as medical service providers cope with the strain of a pandemic and rising costs. But the rush to roll out remote healthcare has also unleashed a universe of wearable medical devices to collect sensitive data, which researchers say are widely…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
Cybereason, the XDR company, today announced that it has discovered previously unidentified malware variants being leveraged in two separate Iranian state-sponsored cyberespionage operations targeting a wide range of organizations in multiple global regions…
The threat to the West from the Chinese government is “more brazen” and damaging than ever before, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Monday night in accusing Beijing of stealing American ideas and innovation and launching massive hacking operations…
A Turkish prosecutor is seeking a jail term of up to 20 years for Metin Gurcan, a founder of the Turkish opposition Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA), over military and political espionage, state media said on Thursday. In late November Gurcan was jailed pending trial…
Transnational Organized Crime
Colombia's armed forces killed at least 15 members of the Clan del Golfo, a criminal organization connected to drug trafficking and illegal mining, during a raid on Tuesday, military sources said. The raid represents the biggest blow to the group since October…
Organised crime gangs are illegally burying thousands of tonnes of waste across Scotland, a BBC investigation has found. Some of the rubbish is being brought up from the north of England by the gangs, and is believed to include hazardous clinical waste from hospitals…
A small boat came ashore in Ocean Beach early Sunday in a suspected human smuggling incident, and everyone on board evaded capture, officials said. Witnesses reported the 16-foot, single-engine boat landing on the beach just north of the Ocean Beach pier about 5 a.m…