Daily Intel Brief
A Chinese military jet crashed during a training flight, Russia threatens direct military clash with the West, and 2 Brits are accused of spying in Albania...
Counterterrorism
ISIS roared onto the social media landscape not with a gruesome beheading, but with a fluffy kitten. The beheadings would be infamously broadcast by the terror group, leading to scattershot social media bans followed by new accounts created by terrorists and their…
A man has been arrested on suspicion of collecting information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism. The 40-year-old man was stopped by police on Wednesday after he arrived into the UK on a flight from Kosovo to Luton airport…
Military & Defense
One person has died and two are injured after a military jet crashed in Laohekou City, Xiangyang, in central Hubei province, near Laohekou Airport on Thursday morning. State broadcaster CCTV's military channel reported that a J-7 fighter jet crashed during training…
The Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) on Thursday carried out war games with 37 allied countries as part of the EFES-2022 military exercise. The exercises are taking place at the Doganbey Shooting Exercise Area in the district of Seferihisar in the Turkish province of Izmir near the…
Cybersecurity
Russia warned the West on Thursday that cyber attacks against its infrastructure risked leading to direct military confrontation, and that attempts to challenge Moscow in the cyber sphere would be met with targeted countermeasures. The warning comes after Russia's…
Russia's invasion of Ukraine and its accompanying geopolitical turmoil may be occupying US adversaries, but they're still a threat to the US in cyberspace. That's the message Matthew Olson, Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the Department of Justice…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
Two Britons have been arrested by Albanian spooks and accused of spying after border police found radio transmitters in their luggage. The pair were quizzed on allegations of espionage by officers at Tirana International Airport after they discovered sophisticated Kenwood…
A previously undocumented Chinese-speaking advanced persistent threat (APT) actor dubbed Aoqin Dragon has been linked to a string of espionage-oriented attacks aimed at government, education, and telecom entities chiefly in Southeast Asia and Australia dating as far back as…
Transnational Organized Crime
Attacks by armed gangs on motorcycles are blamed for the deaths of at least 32 people in rural northwestern Nigeria, residents told The Associated Press. The gunmen attacked four villages in the Kajuru area of Kaduna state on Sunday, said Monday Solomon, a resident of…
An Albanian national has been jailed for his role in a people smuggling operation after eight migrants almost drowned when the boat sunk off the Devon coast. Illegal immigrant and smuggler Indrit Barhani acted as middleman and fixer between an organised crime gang in…