Counterterrorism
In recent years, the security community’s degree of concern about terrorist exploitation of digital currencies has varied. While some entities argue the threat is understated, others suggest that terrorist adoption of digital currencies is overstated. Ultimately, as numerous…
A Palestinian Arab vehicle arrived on Monday night at the entrance to the community of Avnei Hefetz in Samaria. A terrorist sitting inside the vehicle opened fire at the post of the security guard stationed at the entrance and then fled the scene. IDF soldiers are searching…
Military & Defense
Finland appears to be getting closer to joining the NATO military alliance despite Russia's threat of military consequences if it becomes a member. The country's politicians and NATO itself have both pointed to the possibility of Finland joining soon, and a recent survey showed…
Moscow faced global revulsion and accusations of war crimes Monday after the Russian pullout from the outskirts of Kyiv revealed streets, buildings and yards strewn with corpses of what appeared to be civilians, many of them evidently killed at close range…
Cybersecurity
The State Department launched its new Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy on Monday in what it says is a modernization of the agency aimed at emerging technology issues in diplomacy. A statement issued by the department said the bureau will address “the national…
Hackers used internal tools from Mailchimp to target customers from a total of 102 users, including hardware cryptocurrency wallet Trezor, reported The Verge. Trezor users over the weekend received emails claiming that their accounts were compromised in a data breach…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
A Schenectady County man who hid data in the code of a digital photograph of a sunset was convicted Thursday of conspiracy to commit economic espionage against General Electric in order to benefit the Chinese government. Xiaoqing Zheng, 59, was originally accused of…
A British security guard suspected of spying for Russia is to be extradited from Germany to the UK. David Smith, 57, who worked for the British embassy, was arrested at his home in Potsdam near Berlin in August accused of giving Moscow the names of British officials…
Transnational Organized Crime
A New York-based mobster is back in custody after an extensive manhunt following his escape last week, the U.S. Marshals Service announced Monday. Dominic Taddeo, 64, was arrested around 11 a.m. ET on Monday by the U.S. Marshals Service in the District of Florida and…
Federal authorities in South Florida routinely confiscate millions of dollars in hard cash, high-rise condos and luxury cars when they convict criminals of drug trafficking, fraud or money laundering. But in a rare civil case — one of the biggest of its kind in the United States…