Daily Intel Brief
A deadly shooting in Norway is being treated as a possible terrorist attack, a former U.S. Army helicopter pilot admits to espionage, and Ghislaine Maxwell is placed on suicide watch...
Counterterrorism
Norwegian police are investigating the Oslo shooting incident as a possible terrorist attack. Oslo’s annual Pride parade was cancelled on Saturday following a deadly shooting at a gay bar, reported CNN. Norway’s domestic intelligence service said it was working to clarify…
US Army Private Ethan Melzer (Also known as Etil Reggard,) in conjunction with the Order of the Nine Angles terrorist group, planned an attack on his unit during a scheduled deployment to Turkey. He pled guilty to it on Friday. FBI New York Joint Terrorism Task…
Military & Defense
The U.S. convened a secret meeting of top military officials from Israel and Arab countries in March to explore how they could coordinate against Iran’s growing missile and drone capabilities, according to officials from the U.S. and the region. The previously undisclosed…
According to HUR, officials in Belarus’ Gomel region were notified that Russian units could be redeploying there. At the same time, Moscow is planning to station even more of its air force at Belarus airfields. Ostensibly, this is to conduct “joint airspace patrols for training…
Cybersecurity
Roskomnadzor, Russia's telecommunications watchdog, has fined Google 68 million rubles (roughly $1.2 million) for helping spread what it called "unreliable" information on the war in Ukraine and the failure to remove it from its platforms. The Russian telecommunications…
A hacker is selling access to 50 vulnerable networks on a cybercriminal forum after breaking into systems through the recently-discovered Atlassian Confluence zero-day. The Rapid7 Threat Intelligence team told The Record that it found an access broker on the…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
A former U.S. Army helicopter pilot-turned-civilian-contractor pleaded guilty in federal court today, admitting that he acted as an unregistered agent of China and accepted thousands of dollars from representatives of the Chinese government to provide aviation-related…
Mohamed Amar Ampara, who was apprehended in Turkey, is now being interrogated by intelligence officers, says broadcaster NTV Turkey’s national intelligence organisation has captured a Greek citizen on suspicion of espionage activities on behalf of Athens, local…
Transnational Organized Crime
A BBC undercover investigation has exposed a human trafficking network smuggling disabled children from Tanzania to Kenya. Many are taken from their parents with the promise of a better life. Instead, the children are forced to beg on the streets – often for years – while their…
Ghislaine Maxwell is on suicide watch at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn as she awaits her sentencing. Maxwell was found guilty in December of child sex trafficking and related charges for her role in aiding her associate and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein…