Daily Intel Brief
NK doubles down on aggressive rhetoric, the State Department pays out money to victims of Havana Syndrome, and a Nigerian Senator is accused of an organ-harvesting scheme...
Counterterrorism
Insurgents are attacking farther south than ever before, with attacks just 45 km from Pemba, and the first attacks in Nampula province. The main N1 road and mining projects were disrupted. As predicted, the heavy military presence of Rwandan troops in Palma and…
A Northern California man may have been motivated by a conspiracy theory related to the 9/11 attacks when he stabbed and wounded three people with a machete earlier this week at San Francisco International Airport, prosecutors said. The 33-year-old Yuba City resident…
Military & Defense
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un doubled-down on his nuclear arms buildup in face of “hostile forces” as he wrapped up a key military meeting in capital Pyongyang where officials approved unspecified new operational duties for front-line army units. North Korean state…
The United States will send another $450 million in military aid to Ukraine, including some additional medium-range rocket systems, to help push back Russian progress in the war, officials announced Thursday. The latest package includes four High Mobility Artillery…
Cybersecurity
A group of likely state-backed cyber attackers have adopted a new loader to spread five different kinds of ransomware in a bid to hide their true espionage activities. On Thursday, cybersecurity researchers from Secureworks published new research on HUI Loader…
Tech leaders testifying on Wednesday before a House subcommittee on cyber told lawmakers that more coordination is needed between the public and the private sector to identify security threats, including cyber, that stem from emerging technologies like quantum computing and…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
The State Department is preparing to compensate victims of mysterious brain injuries colloquially known as “Havana Syndrome” with six-figure payments, according to officials and a congressional aide. Current and former State Department staff and their families who…
The Greek press has accused Turkish journalists of "espionage" after Anadolu Agency (AA) captured evidence of Greece's militarization of the island of Pserimos (Keçi), 8 kilometers (5 miles) southwest of Turkey's Bodrum peninsula, revealing its deployment of soldiers…
Transnational Organized Crime
Eight men have been convicted in Paris for stealing a Banksy artwork that paid tribute to the victims of the 2015 Bataclan terrorist attack. The suspects were found guilty of theft and handed prison sentences ranging from six months suspended to two years in prison…
A Nigerian senator has been charged with conspiring to transport a boy to the UK in order to harvest organs. Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and his wife Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, 55, appeared at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court in west London earlier on Thursday…