Daily Intel Brief
A senior IS leader is captured in Syria, tensions between China a Taiwan increase, and Iran arrests a suspected French spy...
Counterterrorism
An uninterrupted audio recording of the 9/11 terrorist attacks has resurfaced online. The 90-minute audio recording was initially uploaded to YouTube by ElReyDeNorte. However, it was later shared in Reddit's "Today I Learned" (TIL) forum, where it has amassed over 60,000…
U.S.-led coalition forces captured a senior Islamic State leader in a military operation in northern Syria on Thursday, the coalition said. In a statement, it said the captured leader was an experienced bomb maker and operational facilitator, describing him as one of the top…
Military & Defense
China has threatened Taiwan with an “accelerated demise” in retaliation to a Taipei lawmaker’s revelation that the self-governed island has supersonic missiles capable of reaching Beijing. You Si-kun, president of Taiwan’s Legislative Assembly, disclosed the Yun Feng…
The defense ministers of Greece and Turkey met Thursday on the sidelines of a NATO meeting amid renewed tensions between the neighboring countries and allies, Turkey’s defense ministry said. The discussion in Brussels between Turkey’s Hulusi Akar and Nikos…
Cybersecurity
The U.S. Department of Justice, together with law enforcement partners in Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, have dismantled the infrastructure of a Russian botnet known as RSOCKS which hacked millions of computers and other electronic devices around…
Suspected Iranian hackers targeted the emails of senior Israeli and American officials and executives this month. According to the Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point, the personal e-mail accounts of these individuals were subject to a variety of phishing attacks that linked…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
Iranian authorities have arrested a person accused of having a link to two French citizens being held on espionage charges, state television reported Thursday. The report said the suspect was a Marxist who visited the two alleged French spies before the May 1…
A Dutch intelligence agency said Thursday that it foiled a sophisticated attempt by a Russian spy using a false Brazilian identity to work as an intern at the International Criminal Court, which is investigating allegations of Russian war crimes in Ukraine. The General…
Transnational Organized Crime
A Russian court on Thursday sentenced a former employee at the U.S. embassy to 14 years' imprisonment in a maximum security penal colony on drug smuggling charges, Interfax news agency said. The agency said Marc Fogel had been detained at Moscow's Sheremetyevo…
A fisherman confessed to killing a British journalist and an Indigenous expert in Brazil’s remote Amazon region and took police to a site where human remains were recovered, a federal investigator said after a grim 10-day search for the missing pair. Authorities said…