Daily Intel Brief
An airman was arrested in connection to an attack on a U.S. base in Syria, the U.S. bans the use of land mines except in South Korea, and the Strava app exposes secret bases again...
Counterterrorism
The UAE strongly condemned the terrorist attacks that recently hit several cities in Mali, which killed more than 120 people. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC) said the UAE strongly condemned the criminal acts and permanently…
An unidentified airman has been arrested in connection with an attack using explosives in April on a small U.S. military base in Syria that wounded four American service members, Air Force officials said Tuesday. "As part of an ongoing investigation, on June 16, an airman…
Military & Defense
The State Department is confirming the death of a U.S. citizen in Ukraine who is believed to be only the second American to have been killed in the conflict there. The department said Tuesday that Stephen Zabielski had died in Ukraine and that it is in touch with his family to…
President Joe Biden's administration announced on Tuesday a change in U.S. military policy that bans the use of anti-personnel land mines everywhere in the world, except for the Korean Peninsula. The White House announced the change, which bars the use of anti-personnel…
Cybersecurity
Nikolaj Kozachek, affiliated with Russia's state intelligence, is accused of penetrating the systems of a NATO think tank in Germany. German authorities accused Kozachek, an officer in Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff (GRU), of hacking into…
An advanced persistent threat (APT) actor codenamed ToddyCat has been linked to a string of attacks aimed at high-profile entities in Europe and Asia since at least December 2020. The relatively new adversarial collective is said to have commenced its operations by…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
Researchers and military figures associated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, its nuclear program and its missile-development industry have either died after a series of “mysterious” incidents or were killed in planned assassinations over the past few weeks…
A security vulnerability in the fitness app Strava allowed suspicious figures to identify and track security personnel working at secretive bases in Israel, a disinformation watchdog says. FakeReporter found that by uploading fake running "segments" a user could learn the…
Transnational Organized Crime
Narco-terrorism is a term that explains drug trafficking cartels/organised crime groups which resort to terrorism to achieve their aims. Narco-terrorism can happen in many contexts. Transnational organised crime groups can use terrorism as part of their illicit activities…
Two Jesuit priests were killed at their church in northern Mexico, mowed down by one or more armed men in pursuit of someone who sought protection there, the government and the religious order said Tuesday. The pair, Javier Campos Morales and Joaquin Cesar Mora…