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Afghanistan still a safe-haven for training terrorists, the Bahamas struggles with weapon smuggling, and global food supply chains at risk from hackers...

Overt Operator
May 31
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Counterterrorism

UN: Pakistan-based terrorist groups continue to run training camps in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan

Pakistan-based terror groups such as Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), led by 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed, maintain their training camps in some provinces of Afghanistan and some of them are directly under the Taliban control…

2 Kosovar men held in detention on terror suspicions

A Kosovo court decided Monday to continue detaining two Albanian men who allegedly joined extremist groups in Syria. The Pristina court decided in separate cases in favor of prosecutors’ requests to leave the suspects in detention for a month. A statement said one…

Military & Defense

Russians, Ukrainians fight block by block in eastern city

Russian troops pushed deeper into a key eastern Ukrainian city, fighting street by street with Kyiv’s forces Monday in a battle that the mayor said has left Sievierodonetsk in ruins and driven tens of thousands of people from their homes. Military analysts described the fight…

Ukraine may soon get US long-range MLRS rocket system

The US government appears close to sending a long-range multiple-rocket system (MLRS) to Ukraine. Russia sees such deliveries of heavy weapons as a provocative escalation. President Volodymyr Zelensky and other Ukrainian officials have urged delivery of the MLRS to…

Cybersecurity

Cyber security: Global food supply chain at risk from malicious hackers

Modern "smart" farm machinery is vulnerable to malicious hackers, leaving global supply chains exposed to risk, experts are warning. It is feared hackers could exploit flaws in agricultural hardware used to plant and harvest crops. Agricultural manufacturing giant…

US Academic Credentials Displayed in Public and Dark Web Forums

The cyber division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has published a new Private Industry Notification, warning US colleges and universities that higher education credentials have been advertised for sale on online criminal marketplaces and publically accessible sites…

Counterintelligence & Espionage

Corporate espionage is entering a new era

For espionage of the cloak-and-dagger variety, it is hard to beat the pages of John le Carré or Ian Fleming. But the world of corporate spying has plenty of drama of its own. Take the alleged skulduggery in a recent court case involving two American software firms…

SSU: Russian Federal Security Service conducted a special operation against OSCE officers to show them as spies

The Security Service of Ukraine has established that Russian special services have carried out a series of provocations in the temporarily occupied areas of southern and eastern Ukraine to discredit the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)…

Transnational Organized Crime

Rio's Campaign Against Red Command Achieving Little But Increasing Body Count

Last week's police raid in Rio de Janeiro, which left as many as 23 dead, marked yet another escalation into a security campaign against the Red Command gang, which has killed dozens of people and may end up benefiting an entirely different set of criminals…

The Bahamas says U.S. must do more to control weapons smuggling

The United States needs do more to control the illegal flow of weapons to The Bahamas, the country's prime minister said on Monday, amid growing concern about gun violence and homicides in the Caribbean nation. More than 90% of guns confiscated and used as murder…

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