Counterterrorism
Officials vowed Saturday to hunt down and arrest the masterminds behind a deadly mosque attack in Pakistan a day earlier claimed by an Islamic State affiliate. The assault killed 63 people and wounded nearly 200. IS said in a statement the lone suicide bomber was from…
Fifteen soldiers died Sunday in an Islamic State group attack on an army bus in the central Syrian desert, a war monitor said, as state media reported a "terrorist attack". Despite the fall of IS's "caliphate" in 2019, the group continues to launch deadly attacks from hideouts in the…
Military & Defense
North Korea on Saturday fired a ballistic missile into the sea, according to its neighbors’ militaries, extending Pyongyang’s streak of weapons tests this year amid a prolonged freeze in nuclear negotiations with the United States. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the…
Though Russia has now committed about 95% of the combat power it amassed along Ukraine’s borders, the Pentagon has seen “limited changes on the ground” while the airspace remains contested, a senior U.S. defense official said Sunday evening. After 11 days of war…
Cybersecurity
The Russian government shared a list of 17,576 IP addresses allegedly used to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeting Russian organizations and their networks. The list was shared by the National Coordination Center for Computer Incidents…
Samsung Electronics has allegedly been hacked by a foreign hacking group, which breached its confidential source code and other classified data, industry sources said. Data extortion entity Lapsus$ has claimed that it hacked the system of the South Korean tech giant and leaked up…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
Poland has arrested a Spanish national on suspicion of conducting intelligence activities for Russia, which could carry a 10-year prison sentence if he is found guilty, the Internal Security Agency (ABW) said on Friday. The man, identified as an agent of Russia’s military…
A former Ukrainian banker and spy who attended negotiations with President Putin’s delegation in Belarus has been killed amid reports that he was a double agent for the Russians (Bruno Waterfield writes). Denis Kireyev, 45, a Ukrainian intelligence agent, took part in…
Transnational Organized Crime
A global body focused on fighting money laundering has placed the United Arab Emirates on its so-called “gray list” over concerns that the global trade hub isn’t doing enough to stop criminals and militants from hiding wealth there. The decision late Friday night by the…
On January 9, 2020, some 400 kilograms of cocaine arrived in Catania, a small city on the eastern coast of Sicily. The shipment was the work of José Ángel Rivera Zazueta, "El Flaco," an alleged drug trafficker and second-in-command in the Sinaloa Cartel working under…