Daily Intel Brief
North Korea fires ballistic missiles near Japan, the FSB detains a Ukrainian citizen in Crimea on sabotage charges, and troops are deployed in Ecuador as crime booms...
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Counterterrorism
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced Friday that JOSHUA HALL pled guilty to a Superseding Information charging him with making threats to kill a member of the United States Congress. HALL previously…
Some unlikely fighters are strengthening the Somali government's arsenal in its long war against al-Shabab, one of al-Qaeda's most successful affiliates - and which was behind a twin car bomb explosion in the capital, Mogadishu, last weekend that killed at least 120 people…
Military & Defense
Vladimir Putin’s favorite mercenary group is attempting to up its game with a new St. Petersburg center to attract “inventors, designers, IT specialists,” and start-ups, the head of the PMC Wagner Group said Monday. That sounds pretty ambitious for a group that just a few…
North Korea has fired multiple missiles, including a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile that forced the Japanese government to issue evacuation alerts in northern and central parts of the country. The launches on Thursday are the latest in a series…
Cybersecurity
The US Treasury Department has thwarted a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that officials attributed to Russian hacktivist group Killnet. These are the same pro-Kremlin miscreants that claimed responsibility for knocking more than a dozen US airports' websites…
Up to 100,000 people from across Asia have been lured to Cambodia by Chinese crime syndicates with the promise of good jobs. When they arrive, their passports are seized and they are put to work in modern-day sweatshops, running cybercrime campaigns. The Los Angeles…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
Russian security services have detained a Ukrainian citizen on suspicion of planning to "sabotage" a power line in Crimea, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Wednesday. The FSB said a man in his 40s had been found carrying diagrams of power lines…
Argentine Federal Prosecutor Franco Picardi requested the indictment of former President Mauricio Macri for the alleged crime of espionage, it was reported Tuesday in Buenos Aires. The conservative former head of state is said to have encouraged the Federal Intelligence…
Transnational Organized Crime
Police and soldiers on Wednesday patrolled the terror-stricken streets of two Ecuadoran cities after a spate of attacks blamed on organized crime groups waging a deadly drug war. Following a wave of strikes Tuesday in which five police officers were killed and a civilian…
Global police agency Interpol said it was preparing for the risk that online immersive environments – the “metaverse” – could create new kinds of cybercrime and allow existing crime to take place on a larger scale. Interpol’s member countries have raised concerns about…