Daily Intel Brief
The accused Lockerbie bombing suspect is in American custody, tensions continue to rise between Kosovo and Serbia, and U.S. forces kill two ISIS officials in Syria...
Counterterrorism
A bomb exploded in a bakery in Pakistan's restive southwestern Baluchistan province killing at least one person and wounding six others, including a woman and a child, police said Saturday. Police officer Qaseem Shah said the bomb tore through a shop in the main bazaar…
A Libyan intelligence official accused of making the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 in an international act of terrorism has been taken into U.S. custody and will face federal charges in Washington, the Justice Department said…
Military & Defense
United States forces have killed two members of the ISIL (ISIS) armed group in eastern Syria in a helicopter raid, the US military said in a statement on Sunday without specifying the location of the overnight operation. The forces “conducted a successful helicopter raid…
Tensions soared in northern Kosovo after unknown attackers exchanged gunfire with police and threw a stun grenade at European Union officers overnight. Hundreds of ethnic Serbs, outraged over the arrest of a former police officer, gathered early Sunday at roadblocks they…
Cybersecurity
A new attack method named COVID-bit uses electromagnetic waves to transmit data from air-gapped systems, which are isolated from the internet, over a distance of at least two meters (6.5 ft), where it's captured by a receiver. The information emanating from the isolated…
Pwn2Own Toronto 2022 has ended with competitors earning $989,750 for 63 zero-day exploits (and multiple bug collisions) targeting consumer products between December 6th and December 9th. During this hacking competition, 26 teams and security researchers have…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
In late November 2022, Ukrainian special forces arrested a suspected Russian agent at the Ukraine–Hungary border. The man had been attempting to smuggle secret information into EU member state Hungary on a flash drive that he had allegedly concealed in his…
As Russian troops surged toward Ukraine’s border last fall, a small Western intelligence unit swung into action, tracking signs Moscow was preparing to invade. It drew up escape routes for its people and wrote twice-daily intelligence reports. The unit drafted and sent to its…
Transnational Organized Crime
Whatever its final outcome, the Qatar “corruption” scandal has unveiled an inconvenient, and for most Europeans already obvious, truth. Money does buy influence in the EU. Today’s outrage, in which a current MEP and a former MEP are reportedly accused by the Belgian…
Police in Belgium have arrested Greek Socialist MEP Eva Kaili, one of 14 European Parliament vice-presidents, in connection with an investigation into a criminal organization, corruption, and money laundering that involves an unidentified Gulf state, but apparently…