Daily Intel Brief
A suicide bomber strikes a government building in Kabul, North Korea continues to launch missiles into the sea, and U.S. intelligence believes Ukraine was behind car bomb in Russia...
Counterterrorism
A suicide bomber struck at a center of Taliban power Wednesday, setting off a blast at a government ministry in the Afghan capital of Kabul and killing at least four people. The explosion went off in the afternoon as workers and visitors were praying inside a mosque of…
A Palestinian gunman was killed as Israeli security services arrested a suspect in the Sunday shooting attack on a taxi and bus in the West Bank, it was announced Wednesday. Salman Imran, 35, from the village of Deir al-Hatab near Nablus was arrested after he surrendered to…
Military & Defense
North Korea launched two ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters on Thursday, as the United States redeployed one of its aircraft carriers near the Korean Peninsula in response to Pyongyang's previous launch of a powerful nuclear-capable missile over Japan…
Russia used suicide drones to strike a military base deep inside Ukraine on Wednesday, posing a growing challenge for Kyiv as its forces pressed advances in the south and east of the country. The head of the Kyiv regional military administration said six explosions had been…
Cybersecurity
Zimperium is warning of an Iranian hacking group using a new piece of Android spyware in a broad campaign that has also targeted enterprise users. Dubbed RatMilad, the threat can perform a variety of malicious actions once installed on a victim’s device, including…
Colombia’s National Food and Drug Surveillance Institute (INVIMA) said it is dealing with a cyberattack that has disrupted operations at the agency. The organization said in a statement on Monday it has disabled its website, as well as connections to its servers while it…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
The Los Angeles County District Attorney announced on Tuesday the arrest of Eugene Yu, the CEO of a small company that makes software for scheduling poll workers and had a contract with L.A. County. District Attorney George Gascón said at a news conference that the…
U.S. intelligence officials allege Ukraine was responsible for a car bomb that killed the daughter of a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. Daria Dugina, the daughter of Russian nationalist Alexander Dugin, was…
Transnational Organized Crime
A former FBI agent in Northern California who handled national security issues was convicted Tuesday of accepting at least $150,000 in gifts and cash bribes to provide confidential information to a man with organized crime ties, prosecutors said…
The Mexican government has issued an alert to stop a former governor of the northeastern border state of Tamaulipas from leaving the country, three officials said on Wednesday. The alert was put out because the attorney general's office has issued an arrest warrant for…