Daily Intel Brief
Five are killed and dozens injured in nightclub shooting, Turkey launches Operation Claw-Sword on Kurdish targets, and Ukraine claims Russia to lure Belarus into war with terrorist attacks...
Counterterrorism
Five people were killed and dozens others were injured in a shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado, officials said. The suspect, identified as 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich, allegedly began shooting as soon as he walked into Club Q in Colorado Springs late Saturday…
The investigation of racially motivated threats of violence targeting historically Black colleges and universities has identified one juvenile believed to be responsible for a majority of the threats and the Department of Justice has worked with state prosecutors to hold the minor…
Military & Defense
Two U.S. B-1B Lancer strategic bombers entered the Korean Air Defense Identification Zone (KADIZ) and joined a South Korea-U.S. joint air drill Saturday, one day after North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) toward the East Sea, military officials said…
Turkey has launched air strikes on Kurdish targets in Iraq and Syria, a week after a bombing in Istanbul which it blames on Kurdish militants. The strikes - dubbed Operation Claw-Sword - hit Kurdish bases which were being used to launch attacks on Turkey, the defence ministry…
Cybersecurity
According to Trend Micro researchers, a Chinese government-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) group has launched spear-phishing attacks to target education, government, and research sectors worldwide. The report is unsurprising as earlier this year, researchers linked…
A notorious advanced persistent threat actor known as Mustang Panda has been linked to a spate of spear-phishing attacks targeting government, education, and research sectors across the world. The primary targets of the intrusions from May to October 2022 included…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
On Friday, the Delhi Police arrested a driver working with the Ministry of External Affairs in connection with an alleged espionage case. The driver reportedly was ‘honey trapped’ and is said to have passed on confidential information to the other accused involved in the matter…
The likely sites of the “incidents” are supposed to be the territories bordering with EU countries and Ukraine (in particular, Grodno and Brest oblasts). One of the main targets is the Ostrovets nuclear power plant, according to the HUR…
Transnational Organized Crime
Greek police say that they have arrested a 35-year-old German citizen who has four outstanding arrest warrants on him for fraud and cybercrime, three from Germany and one international. The Thessaloniki police's organized crime and human trafficking division…
Turkish Authorities arrested this week more than 200 people suspected of financial and smuggling related crimes, Turkey’s interior ministry said in a statement. Operation Girdap or “Whirlpool” was executed in 50 out of Turkey’s 80 provinces. One fraud operation officers…