Daily Intel Brief
ISIS launches an attack in Kabul, China and Taiwan continue live-fire exercises amid tensions, and Kosovo detains a Russian journalist on espionage charges...
Counterterrorism
Militants fired rockets at Jerusalem on Sunday after Israel announced it had killed a senior Islamic Jihad commander in Gaza as a delegation from Egypt arrived in the country to broker a truce between the opposing parties. Israel Defense Forces announced Sunday that Khaled…
Rustam Haidery, 22, was watching a TikTok video in his bedroom Wednesday morning when a bullet smashed into the window ledge above his head. Leaping up, he saw uniformed Taliban forces setting up barricades in the street below. From a 12-story apartment building on the…
Military & Defense
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency raised grave concern about shelling at a nuclear power plant in Ukraine, as its military said Russian forces had attacked dozens of front-line towns. Since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24 in what President Vladimir Putin…
China announced a new series of military drills near Taiwan on Sunday, expanding efforts to express a show of force in the wake of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to the self-governing island last week. Driving the news: In the wake of Pelosi's visit, China announced…
Cybersecurity
A new social engineering campaign by the notorious North Korean Lazarus hacking group has been discovered, with the hackers impersonating Coinbase to target employees in the fintech industry. A common tactic the hacking group uses is to approach targets over LinkedIn to…
Twitter officially confirmed that a January breach led to the leak of information connected to 5.4 million accounts. Two weeks ago, a hacker on Breach Forums offered email addresses and phone numbers connected to the accounts, which they said ranged from…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
Kosovo's interior minister said on Saturday it has arrested a Russian journalist at the border on suspicion that she could be a spy, and security authorities were searching "for her intentions." The country's interior minister Xhelal Svecla named the journalist as Daria…
Ukraine’s State Security Service (SBU) detained two men it accused of being Russian intelligence agents responsible for identifying targets for Russian missile strikes that wrecked shipbulding infrastructure in the southern port city of Mykolaiv, the agency said on Saturday…
Transnational Organized Crime
Foreign supply of missiles, rockets, and artillery to war-torn Ukraine has raised fears of the weapons entering Ukraine's illicit arms market and their subsequent smuggling and that some of them could also re-emerge in faraway conflicts for the coming decades…
A former senator who worked for the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor was killed in an upscale neighborhood near Haiti’s capital and his body set on fire along with his nephew, Government Commissioner Jacques Lafontant told The Associated Press on Sunday…