Daily Intel Brief
Over 20 people are killed in a deadly siege in Somalia, a man allegedly planning a mass shooting was arrested outside of an EDM festival, and Daria Dugin was killed in Russia...
Counterterrorism
Police officers in Grant County, Washington believe they prevented a potential mass shooting a the Bass Canyon EDM festival at the Gorge Amphitheatre on Friday night (August 19), as Consequence of Sound points out. According to a Facebook post from the Grant County…
Somali forces have ended a deadly siege at a hotel in the capital Mogadishu which saw more than 20 people killed and dozens of hostages freed, authorities said on Sunday. Elite armed forces in the Horn-of-Africa nation battled al Qaeda-linked militants for 30 hours, after…
Military & Defense
A car explosion Saturday night in Moscow has grabbed worldwide attention, mostly because of the death of Daria Dugin, daughter of Alexander Dugin, the man known for Russian propaganda and otherwise known as Russian President Vladimir Putin's "brain." Daria was…
The first surprise, for the Finnish conscripts and officers taking part in a NATO-hosted military exercise in the Arctic this spring: the sudden roar of a U.S. Marine helicopter assault force, touching down in a field right next to the Finns’ well-hidden command post…
Cybersecurity
The chief executive of embattled Israeli spyware maker NSO has stepped down as part of a corporate reorganization, the company announced Sunday. NSO has been connected to a number of scandals resulting from alleged misuse by customers of its flagship Pegasus phone…
According to the first half of the 2022 H1 Global Threat Analysis Report released by Radware this past week, cyber attacks have grown and evolved as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Here are two of the main findings: DDoS attacks rise dramatically - The first six…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
Albania said on Sunday it was investigating why two Russians and a Ukrainian had tried to enter a military factory and police detained four Czech nationals also close to another military plant. The defence ministry said late on Saturday that two of its soldiers had been…
Russia has failed to gain ground in cyberspace against Ukraine almost six months after its invasion of the country, the head of Britain's GCHQ intelligence service said on Friday. Jeremy Fleming, the intelligence head, in an op-ed in The Economist, wrote that both…
Transnational Organized Crime
Black oil spills are spotted on the banks of the Euphrates River in Syria, near the oil smuggling points between the areas controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Syrian government-held areas. The Euphrates River, the longest in Western Asia and…
Five Hong Kongers have been arrested for allegedly setting up job scams in which victims were lured to Southeast Asia and then held against their will, police announced Sunday. In recent months, victims have reported traveling to countries such as Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand…