Daily Intel Brief
A Texas student was found with a fake AK47 in his car, the leader of the white nationalist group "The Base" was arrested, and private satellite companies win big government contracts...
Counterterrorism
A New York man was found guilty by a federal jury in Brooklyn, following a three-week trial before U.S. District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis, of one count of conspiracy to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), and five substantive counts…
Justen Watkins, self-proclaimed leader of the white nationalist group, The Base, was sentenced to up to six years in prison on charges of conspiring to train for civil disorder and felony firearm on Tuesday in a Tuscola County courtroom. Watkins faced charges for his…
Military & Defense
Russia's parliament approved a law on Wednesday in double-quick time removing the upper age limit for contractual service in the military, amid heavy casualties in Ukraine. Lawmakers in the State Duma lower house approved the bill in three readings in a single session, with the…
Fighters from the M23 rebel group advanced in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday and were locked in heavy fighting with the army outside the region's largest military base, security sources and the local park director said. After several days…
Cybersecurity
At the height of his career, Vietnamese hacker Ngo Minh Hieu made a fortune stealing the personal data of hundreds of millions of Americans. Now he has been recruited by his own authoritarian government to hunt, he says, the kind of cyber criminal he once used to be…
Interpol said Wednesday that it struck a major blow against a cybercrime group known for business email compromise (BEC) scams aimed at stealing money from companies around the world. The international law enforcement agency announced that the cybercrime unit of…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
Three satellite imaging companies are in line to receive billions of dollars from the National Reconnaissance Office over the next decade, thanks to a string of contracts announced today. The companies are the same satellite operators who won study contracts from the NRO three…
A website that published leaked emails from leading figures involved in Brexit has links to Russian hackers, according to Google. The website - called “Very English Coop d’Etat” - claimed to have published emails from the former head of the MI6 Richard Dearlove…
Transnational Organized Crime
Texas police reported on Wednesday that a high school student had been arrested after having what appeared to be a pistol and rifle in his vehicle just one day after an elementary school in the state became the scene of a mass shooting that left 19 children and two adults dead...
The Treasury Department on Wednesday announced the latest round of sanctions targeting an international oil smuggling and money laundering network linked to Iran. In a statement, the department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control said that a group of Iranian Revolutionary…