Daily Intel Brief
Canada continues to distance itself from China by adopting a Indo-Pacific strategy, China intelligence units are using malicious USBs to spy on targets, and 100 Boko Haram financiers identified...
Counterterrorism
Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has said that the federal government has identified 100 high-risk financiers of Boko Haram. He said that these financiers have link to at least 10 different countries of the world. Aregbesola made the disclosure at the recent 3rd Ministerial…
U.S. special envoy Tim Lenderking is traveling to Oman and Saudi Arabia this week to support Yemen peace efforts, the U.S. State Department said on Monday in a statement that also urged an immediate end to attacks on Yemeni ports. "At this critical moment, we…
Military & Defense
Ukraine has prepared for more Russian attacks against energy and other critical infrastructure on Monday in what appears to be a weekly pattern, and warned of possible evacuations from the capital. Estonia’s foreign minister joined counterparts from six Baltic and Nordic…
Xi Jinping promised early in his tenure that China would contribute to regional cooperation in the Asia-Pacific. Instead, what we have often seen are aggressive demands. As a consequence, other nations in the Indo-Pacific region are working more closely together, driven by a…
Cybersecurity
A phishing campaign discovered in July that saw threat actors impersonating the Ministry of Human Resources of the UAE government may be more significant in scale than previously believed. The findings come from security researchers at CloudSEK, who published a new…
Unsubstantiated claims that hundreds of millions of WhatsApp users’ phone numbers were leaked have prompted inquiries from data protection regulators over the weekend. A post on the hacking site BreachForums last Wednesday, made by a new user with just a handful of…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
Mandiant Managed Defense recently identified cyber espionage activity that heavily leverages USB devices as an initial infection vector and concentrates on the Philippines. Mandiant tracks this activity as UNC4191 and we assess it has a China nexus. UNC4191 operations…
The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has detained two more Russian assets during a counterintelligence operation in the areas of Donetsk Oblast close to the line of contact. The SSU stated that the perpetrators were gathering intelligence about the positions…
Transnational Organized Crime
Europol has arrested hundreds of fraudsters, money launderers and cocaine kingpins, and shut down thousands of websites selling pirated and counterfeit products in a series of raids over the past month. As of Cyber Monday, law enforcement agencies had taken down 12,526…
Interpol on Thursday announced the seizure of $130 million worth of virtual assets in connection with a global crackdown on cyber-enabled financial crimes and money laundering. The international police operation, dubbed HAECHI-III, transpired between June 28 and…