Daily Intel Brief
15 killed in a mass shooting in South Africa, a Russian rocket attack struck Ukrainian apartments, and analysts investigate the homemade gun used to kill former Japanese PM Abe...
Counterterrorism
A mass shooting at a tavern in Johannesburg’s Soweto township has killed 15 people and left others in critical condition, according to police. Police say they are investigating reports that a group of men arrived in a minibus taxi and opened fire on some of the patrons at the bar…
The man suspected of killing former Japanese premier Shinzo Abe with a hand-made gun on Friday could have made the weapon in a day or two after obtaining readily available materials such as wood and metal pipes, analysts say. The attack showed gun violence cannot be…
Military & Defense
Dozens of Ukrainian emergency workers labored Sunday to pull people out of the rubble after a Russian rocket attack smashed into apartment buildings in eastern Ukraine, killing at least 15 people. More than 20 people were believed still trapped. The strike late Saturday…
South Korea's military said on Sunday it had detected the trajectories of what appeared to be shots fired by North Korea, possibly from multiple rocket launchers (MLRs). South Korea's Joint Chief of Staff announced that the shots were detected after 6 p.m. and that the military…
Cybersecurity
One of Canada's largest mobile and internet providers, Rogers, has apologised for the country-wide outage of its services which began on Friday. The company's CEO Tony Staffieri said the failure followed "a maintenance update in our core network". Transport, banking and…
The contents of Hunter Biden's iCloud account have allegedly been hacked by users of the 4chan community, where screenshots purporting to be from his phone and computer were being posted on their main political forum late Saturday night. Administrators on the…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
As a long-time dissident and California-based opponent of the Chinese government, Arthur Liu - the father of US Olympic figure skater Alyssa Liu - was not particularly surprised when a phone call came from the FBI. "They told me that the Chinese government had sent spies…
U.S. prosecutors charged two men tied to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as part of what federal law enforcement officials have called a "transnational repression scheme" on behalf of the Chinese government to spy on and harass dissidents living in the United…
Transnational Organized Crime
A year has passed since President Jovenel Moise was assassinated at his private home where an elite security team was supposed to protect him. Not only have authorities failed to identify and arrest all those who masterminded and financed the killing, but Haiti also has gone into…
Aftershocks from the Libya conflict continue to reverberate through the country’s archaeological sector. Dozens of rare and unique artifacts are being smuggled abroad amid mounting warnings from officials and specialists of the demise of this sector, which was once…