Daily Intel Brief
China's Xi expands power, India launches rocket to deploy 36 internet satellites, Pakistan removed from terror funding 'Grey List', and China using real estate industry to support espionage...
Counterterrorism
Yemen’s internationally-recognized government said on Friday its forces had intercepted armed drones launched on a southern oil terminal in Hadramout province by Houthi militants as an oil tanker was preparing to dock. A Yemeni government official said Houthi drones…
Pakistan has been removed from the grey list of the Financial Action Task Force, the Paris-based global watchdog on money laundering and terrorist financing. Pakistan was placed in the grey list in 2018 for failing to keep a check on money laundering and terrorist financing…
Military & Defense
President Xi Jinping, China’s most powerful leader in decades, increased his dominance Sunday when he was named to another term as head of the ruling Communist Party in a break with tradition and promoted allies who support his vision of tighter control over society…
India’s space agency says its rocket has successfully put 36 internet satellites into orbit for UK-based satellite company OneWeb after months of delay due to the war in Ukraine. The mission – part of a commercial arrangement between New Space India Limited…
Cybersecurity
Researchers at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science found thousands of repositories on GitHub that offer fake proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for various vulnerabilities, some of them including malware. GitHub is one of the largest code hosting…
Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation said Sunday an email server of its subsidiary was hacked in a "foreign" attack aimed at drawing "attention" amid protests over the death of Mahsa Amini. The Islamic republic has been gripped by weeks-long demonstrations sparked by the…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
According to a devastating assessment, Beijing recruited senior experts from a renowned American nuclear laboratory in a decades-long scheme to advance its own military. Republicans in Congress have now called for a probe into the claims that between 1987…
Over the last four decades, China has de facto colonized the United States with a cadre of business and academic professionals, who, although becoming U.S. citizens, have remained loyal to the Chinese Communist Party. A key element supporting China’s espionage…
Transnational Organized Crime
The international policing organization Interpol is unveiling the first metaverse designed for law enforcement communication. According to a new Interpol press release, The Interpol Metaverse is already developed and it enables police offers around the globe to communicate…
Florida authorities arrested two central North Carolina men accused of planning to traffic fentanyl into Florida from Mexico, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said in a press release posted on Friday. Sheriff Grady Judd said during an undercover operation, his detectives…