Daily Intel Brief
Military UFO sightings are increasing, Bangladeshi Islamist militants are being radicalized online, and a drug-smuggling tunnel was discovered linking San Diego to Mexico...
Counterterrorism
Sirens sounded in Shavei Shomron on Tuesday night amid reports that a Palestinian terrorist entered the West Bank settlement, Army Radio reported. Residents were asked to shelter in their homes and close all windows and doors. The IDF confirmed it had identified…
The office of Russia's Prosecutor General has asked the Supreme Court to recognise Ukraine's Azov Regiment as a "terrorist organisation", Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday citing the Ministry of Justice website. Russia's Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the case on May…
Military & Defense
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will conduct a simulated airstrike on Iran during a monthlong military drill that begins at the end of May. Multiple Israeli media outlets reported on the planned drill, and Ram Ben-Barak, head of the Israeli parliament's Foreign Affairs and…
Military List of UFO Sightings Has More Than Doubled in the Past Year, Navy Official Says at Hearing
Congress held its first hearing on UFOs in over 50 years on Tuesday, and it turns out there have been a lot more reported UFO — or UAP, unidentified aerial phenomenon — sightings than previously believed. A Navy intelligence official told lawmakers that the military’s…
Cybersecurity
Militant Islamism has posed a significant challenge to Bangladesh since the 1980s, with various conflicts in the Middle East serving as significant motivating factors. The Palestinian struggle for an independent state motivated the first generation of militants in Bangladesh…
The cybersecurity firm NCC Group just demonstrated that millions of locks worldwide can be unlocked by hackers using a vulnerability in Bluetooth technology, and a Tesla was the company’s prime example. Tesla vehicles, like the Model 3 and Model Y, use a technology…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
The U.S. government is increasingly alarmed about the thousands of North Korean tech workers that are being dispatched to American IT companies, including crypto firms, to earn revenue for North Korea and its weapons programs, violating U.S. and UN sanctions…
An innovative app, allowing users of social media and professional networking sites, to better identify the hallmarks of fake profiles used by foreign spies and other malicious actors, and take steps to report and remove them, has been launched in the U.K…
Transnational Organized Crime
More than 100,000 people are now listed as missing in violence-wracked Mexico, a grim milestone that the United Nations rights chief on Tuesday called "a tragedy of enormous proportions." Rights groups appealed for urgent action to tackle disappearances that…
Federal investigators said they found a more than 1,700-foot-long drug-smuggling tunnel connecting San Diego to Tijuana, Mexico, and authorities charged six people for conspiracy to distribute more than 1,750 pounds of cocaine. The tunnel, which is about one-third of a…