Counterterrorism
Counter terrorism police have arrested two men in Manchester as part of the investigation into the Texas synagogue attack by British hostage-taker Malik Faisal Akram. Akram, who was originally from Blackburn in Lancashire, was shot dead when the FBI entered the...
The Biden administration has signaled how it will use its power to designate different groups as terrorists as part of its foreign policy efforts. Secretary of State Antony Blinken took the Colombian rebel group the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as the FARC…
Domestic violent extremists including white supremacists and accelerationists continue to aspire to attack the power grid utilizing encrypted messaging platforms and simple tactics that could make a plot harder to detect in the planning stages, according to a new memo from the…
Military & Defense
France and 14 other countries urged Mali late on Wednesday to allow Danish forces to remain in the African country, saying their presence was critical in the fight against terrorism in the region. Mali’s government said on Monday it had asked Denmark to immediately…
A senior US official suggested Wednesday that the Winter Olympics beginning next week in China could affect Russian President Vladimir Putin's calculations over a possible invasion of Ukraine. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said that the Winter Olympics in Beijing…
North Korea fired an "unidentified projectile" early Thursday, Seoul said, its sixth apparent weapons test this year as the nuclear-armed country flexes its military muscles and ignores Washington's offers of talks. The last time North Korea tested this many weapons in a month…
Cybersecurity
The German government said on Tuesday that a Chinese cyberespionage group known as APT27 has repeatedly attacked German companies over the past few months using vulnerabilities in software like Microsoft Exchange and Zoho SelfService. The attacks…
North Korea's internet appears to have been hit by a second wave of outages in as many weeks, possibly caused by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, researchers said on Wednesday. The latest incident took place for about six hours on Wednesday…
The mobile malware heisted hundreds of millions of dollars from unsuspecting users, thanks to 470 different well-crafted malicious app in Google Play. Nearly 500 malicious apps lurking on the Google Play Store have successfully installed Dark Herring malware — a cash-stealer…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
A government report on Chinese espionage activities in Canada accuses Beijing of engaging in a “systematic campaign of intelligence-gathering, persuasion, influence, and manipulation” against the Chinese community. In the report obtained by Global News, Canadian officials…
What Happened: Lilith Wittmann, an activist-researcher, wrote in a blog that she uncovered the “Federal Telecommunications Service,” which according to her is a secret intelligence agency. In the blog, first noted on Apple Insider, Wittmann detailed the steps she took to…
Hong Kong's security chief said on Wednesday that his government would strengthen laws against espionage as part of extra national security legislation now being drafted. Secretary for Security Chris Tang told the city's legislature that Hong Kong's existing laws against…
Transnational Organized Crime
The DEA says 21 people were charged in Dallas Tuesday in a large-scale operation targeting violent drug gangs in the Hamilton Park neighborhood. Dallas DEA Special Agent in Charge Eduardo A. Chávez said Wednesday morning that the arrests are the culmination of a…
A Texas resident pleaded guilty Tuesday to smuggling two men near the U.S.-Mexico border in an American flag-draped coffin, an unusual scheme thwarted by Border Patrol last year, as immigration officials grapple with higher-than-average migrant arrests…
Activists from Mexico’s violence-plagued western state of Michoacan said Tuesday that the government has to fight all drug cartels equally and return land to an estimated 35,000 people displaced by fighting. “In terms of safety, we are worse than ever,” said Hipolito Mora…