Counterterrorism

Exclusive: TSA report saw ‘low’ risk of a terrorist attack on mass transit 2 weeks before New York subway shooting

Frank James was charged Wednesday with carrying out a terrorist attack on mass transit, federal prosecutors in New York announced, after allegedly opening fire Monday morning on a subway train, shooting ten people and leaving an additional 13 injured in the melee that…

Terrorist Ali Harbi Ali handed whole-life sentence for murder of Sir David Amess

The homegrown terrorist who murdered veteran MP Sir David Amess in a warped retaliation against politicians who voted to bomb Syria has been handed a whole-life prison term. Unrepentant Ali Harbi Ali pursed his lips briefly as Mr Justice Sweeney handed down his…

Military & Defense

Biden Announces Another $800 Million in Military Aid for Ukraine

President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he has approved another $800 million in military aid for Ukraine, bringing the total in U.S. security assistance pledged to the country to roughly $2.5 billion since the Russian invasion in February, and $3.2 billion since Biden…

Colombia urged to investigate botched army raid that left four civilians dead

Colombian authorities are facing growing calls to investigate a botched army raid in which at least four civilians – including a 16-year old boy, a pregnant woman, and an Indigenous leader – were killed. The raid took place early on 28 March in a remote village in the…

Cybersecurity

Anonymous claims it hacked 700GB leaked Russian gov’t data

The “hacktivist” group known as Anonymous claimed on Monday to have hacked and leaked more than 700GB of Russian government data. The hackers also claimed they breached the emails and data of Aerogas, a Russian state-backed oil and gas company…

Feds warn of ‘exceptionally rare and dangerous’ malware targeting industrial control systems

Multiple U.S. government agencies issued a joint alert Wednesday warning of the discovery of malicious cyber tools created by unnamed advanced threat actors that they said were capable of gaining “full system access” to multiple industrial control systems. The public alert from…

Counterintelligence & Espionage

Russian convicted of spying in Germany, gets suspended term

A German court convicted a Russian man of espionage and gave him a one-year suspended sentence on Wednesday in a case in which he was accused of passing information about European rockets to Russian intelligence. The defendant, who has been identified only as…

How the Russian Invasion Is Helping the U.S. Recruit Spies

As Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to wage war in Ukraine, the U.S. intelligence community has a rare opportunity to help the United States and hurt Russia for years to come by doing one simple thing: recruiting spies. Former CIA officials and current members of…

Transnational Organized Crime

U.S. offers $5 million reward for arrest of Irish crime gang

The United States on Tuesday offered a $5 million reward for help arresting the leaders of Ireland's Kinahan drug trafficking gang which it likened to some of the world's most notorious crime networks. The United States also imposed financial sanctions against gang…

Morocco Holds Bulgarians, Iranians In 'Trafficking' Probe

Moroccan police have arrested several Bulgarians and Iranians allegedly linked to a migrant smuggling network, the DGSN intelligence service said on Wednesday. Officers at the international airport in Casablanca detained four Bulgarian nationals and three Iranians…