Counterterrorism
The Texas synagogue terrorist claimed his actions would open the doors for every young British jihadist to launch an attack against America, as counter-terror police made two more arrests in the UK. Malik Faisal Akram, 44, made the chilling remarks in a recorded telephone…
Prosecutors in Norway have said far-right terrorist Anders Breivik, who murdered 77 people in 2011, should not be released from prison. The extremist, who has already served 10 years of a maximum 21 year jail sentence, was described as still a "very dangerous man" on the third…
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday his administration is considering re-designating Yemen's Houthi movement as an international terrorist organization following drone and missile attacks on the United Arab Emirates claimed by the group. His comment at a news…
Military & Defense
Spain is sending warships to bolster NATO naval forces in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea and is mulling sending fighter jets to Bulgaria in a bid to deter Russian aggression, Reuters reported. A mine-sweeper is already on the way and a frigate will be sent within three or four…
Satellite images released on January 19 show Russian military activity at locations in western Russia, some near the Ukrainian border, as US President Joe Biden warned Russia about further invading Ukraine. Biden said in a press conference on January 19 that he didn’t think…
Israel signed a €3 billion (U.S. $3.4 billion) deal Thursday to buy three cutting-edge submarines from Germany, the Israeli Defense Ministry announced. The Dakar-class diesel-electric submarines will be produced by German manufacturer ThyssenKrupp and are…
Cybersecurity
The Red Cross has disclosed that it was the victim of a cyber attack and has asked the hackers who broke into the IT network of one of its contractors not to leak the personal information of more than 515,000 of “highly vulnerable people.” The data was stolen from a Red Cross…
Firmware-based rootkits, though still relatively rare, are gaining in popularity because they give threat actors a way to maintain a persistent, hard-to-detect, and difficult-to-eradicate presence on a target network. Kaspersky researchers recently discovered the latest example…
The information-disclosure issue, affecting Macs, iPhones and iPads, allows a snooping website to find out information about other tabs a user might have open. A security vulnerability in Apple’s browsers for macOS, iOS and iPadOS can lead to information…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
The Justice Department dropped charges Thursday against a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor accused of concealing ties to the Chinese government, a further setback to a federal initiative that was set up to prevent economic espionage and theft by Beijing…
The US Treasury Department on Thursday issued sanctions against four Ukrainian nationals accused of working to "destabilize" the Ukrainian government. The department said in a news release that the four sanctioned individuals "engaged in Russian government-directed…
The CIA has assessed that the "majority" of reported cases of unexplained medical symptoms known as "Havana syndrome" can be "reasonably explained by medical conditions or environmental and technical factors," a senior CIA official told ABC News…
Transnational Organized Crime
Six people have been arrested and €700,000 in cash has been seized during a massive cross-city Garda operation targeting drug gangs in Dublin. 24 premises were searched in west Dublin on Wednesday, mainly in Ballyfermot, Clondalkin, Lucan, and Crumlin, with some…
Four bodies were found in Canada, near the border with the U.S. after a Florida man was arrested for human smuggling on Wednesday. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office in the District of Minnesota, on Wednesday, U.S. Border Patrol officials stopped a 15-passenger…
The Coast Guard Cutter Richard Dixon repatriated 90 Dominicans to the Dominican Republic Sunday afternoon, following the interdiction of three illegal voyages near Puerto Rico. The interdictions are the result of ongoing local and federal multi-agency efforts…