Daily Intel Brief
China is offering $15K to its citizens to report national security tips, an armed man was arrested after threatening to kill Justice Kavanaugh, and a USMC Osprey crashed in S. California...
Counterterrorism
A drone armed with explosives lightly injured three civilians near a US consulate building in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq on Wednesday. A spokesperson for the Kurdistan Regional Government said the blast, which occurred on Pirmam-Erbil road in Erbil at 9:35 p.m. local…
A man carrying a gun, a knife and zip ties was arrested Wednesday near Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s house in Maryland after threatening to kill the justice. Nicholas John Roske, 26, of Simi Valley, California, was charged with the attempted murder of a Supreme Court…
Military & Defense
A military aircraft crashed in a remote, desert area of Southern California on Wednesday, authorities said. Five people were on board an MV-22B Osprey when it went down, according to a Marine official, who did not have any further update on their condition. The Imperial…
China’s rapid build-up of military infrastructure along the Line of Actual Control with India is ‘alarming’, and adds to its overall `destabilising and corrosive behaviour’ in the entire Indo-Pacific region, a top US general said on Wednesday. Visiting US Army's Pacific…
Cybersecurity
Hackers employed by the Chinese government have broken into numerous major telecommunications firms around the world in a cyber espionage campaign that has lasted at least two years, according to a new advisory from American security agencies…
Anonymous has done it again! The decentralized international hacktivist collective this time embarrassed a top Russian law firm, which counts several big corporations and global banks among its clients, with a massive data dump of confidential documents. The tons of…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
A Forbes legal challenge forces the unsealing of documents that reveal for the first time the scope of secretive surveillance orders that track the movements of individuals around the globe. Critics say the government isn’t doing enough to inform the public about the unusual…
China is to offer rewards of up to $15,000 for information on potential breaches of national security. Rewards for tip-offs on foreign spies have existed in China for years, but the new measures seek to regulate the incentives nationally and encourage more citizens to expose…
Transnational Organized Crime
The Australian federal police commissioner has urged his Five Eyes counterparts to ramp up the fight against organised crime, declaring the pandemic has fuelled “the destabilisation of the world order”. Reece Kershaw issued a rallying call for closer coordination on law…
A British citizen was sentenced Monday by an Iraqi court to 15 years in prison after being convicted of attempting to smuggle artifacts out of the country, in a case that has attracted international attention. The verdict handed down to retired geologist Jim Fitton, shocked…