Daily Intel Brief
The SAA intercepts Israeli missiles over Tartus, Mexico keeps army in the streets as cartel violence rises, and 5 Americans are injured in a terror attack in Jerusalem...
Counterterrorism
The suspect arrested for stabbing prominent author Salman Rushdie, Hadi Matar, had been in contact with the US-designated terrorist organization, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), prior to the nearly lethal assault on the writer, news organization VICE…
A Palestinian gunman opened fire on a bus parked near Jerusalem’s Western Wall leaving eight injured including five Americans. According to Israeli media, four of the five injured Americans came from the same New York family. After an hours-long manhunt, the shooter…
Military & Defense
The Syrian government's air defence systems intercepted Israeli missiles over the coastal province of Tartus and in central Syria, near the border with Lebanon, state media reported Sunday. "Our air defences are intercepting hostile targets in the sky of Tartus…
Eleven Chinese military aircraft crossed the Taiwan Strait's median line or entered Taiwan’s air defence zone on Sunday, Taiwan's Defence Ministry said, as Beijing continues military activities close to the Chinese-claimed island…
Cybersecurity
Dutch financial prosecutors say they detained a man suspected of involvement in "concealing criminal financial flows and facilitating money laundering" through the virtual currency mixer Tornado Cash. The 29-year-old man was arrested Aug. 10 in Amsterdam, the financial…
Following an alleged theft that stole $32 million from BlueBenx, a Brazilian crypto lending site, all of its 22,000 members were reportedly barred from withdrawing their funds (or 160 million Brazilian real), as reported by Cointelegraph. While no information about the hack…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
SpaceX has received approval from the US Space Force to launch top secret spy satellites with its reusable Falcon Heavy rocket, Bloomberg first reported. The launches will come under the National Security Space Launch mission, the Space Force told Bloomberg in a statement…
According to intelligence information, the Russian special services have created a fake website of the Zelenskyy Foundation and prepared a broad media campaign to discredit the president of Ukraine. "The Administration of the President of the Russian Federation has agreed to…
Transnational Organized Crime
Mexico’s president has begun exploring plans to sidestep congress to hand formal control of the National Guard to the army, a move that could extend the military’s control over policing in a country with high levels of violence. That has raised concerns because President Andrés…
Gunfire and a subsequent explosion left at least five people dead, 15 injured and several others missing, as well as damaging homes, in the Ecuadorian port city of Guayaquil, authorities said Sunday. On its Twitter account, Ecuador's Prosecutor…