Daily Intel Brief
An American was killed in Iraq by an Iranian rocket attack, an ex-Army Major and wife are charged with planning to leak sensitive medical info to Russia, and Europol takes down a trafficking gang...
Counterterrorism
Two months after a U.S. Hellfire missile posted a “Now Hiring” sign for al-Qaeda’s CEO position, experts continue to debate potential contenders while waiting for al-Qaeda to make an announcement. Some believe that the group’s silence on its new leader signals a crisis of…
The Turkish-trained elite forces from the Gorgor brigade have conducted an operation near the Basra area on the outskirts of the capital, Mogadishu. The troops targeted an Al-Shabaab base in an area called Sabya, where heavy fighting was reported during the cover operation…
Military & Defense
An American citizen was killed in an Iranian missile and drone attack in northern Iraq on Wednesday, a State Department spokesperson said. “We can confirm that a U.S. citizen was killed as a result of a rocket attack in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region yesterday,“ spokesperson…
Thousands of intercepted calls made by Russian soldiers in Ukraine and obtained by the New York Times (NYT) newspaper appear to reveal new evidence of widespread atrocities committed by Moscow’s forces and anger within their ranks over President Vladimir Putin’s…
Cybersecurity
White hat hackers uncovered almost 350 vulnerabilities inside the Defense Department’s networks during a week-long bug bounty program held earlier this year, according to the initiative’s organizers. Nearly 270 researchers participated in the effort, called “Hack U.S.”…
Threat hunters at Microsoft have intercepted a notorious North Korean government hacking group lacing legitimate open source software with custom malware capable of data theft, espionage, financial gain and network destruction. The hackers, a sub-group of Lazarus that…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
A former U.S. Army major and his anesthesiologist wife have been criminally charged for allegedly plotting to leak highly sensitive healthcare data about military patients to Russia, the Justice Department revealed on Thursday. Jamie Lee Henry, the former major who was…
A 30-year-old former National Security Agency (NSA) employee was charged in federal court on Thursday with attempting to sell sensitive information related to national cyber operations to a foreign government representative. Jareh Dalke worked as an Information Systems…
Transnational Organized Crime
German and Hungarian authorities arrested the alleged kingpins of a Hungarian gang of traffickers for sexual exploitation, dismantling the criminal network, according to Europol’s Tuesday press release. The investigation led by the German Regional Police of Berlin and the…
Czech police fired warning shots in the air before detaining the driver of a van carrying 15 migrants Thursday morning after the Czech Republic and Austria renewed checks at the border with Slovakia amid a new wave of migration. Czech police reported traffic delays…