Daily Intel Brief
Houthis' organic links with IRGC and Hezbollah revealed, No traces of dirty bomb in Ukraine, and Qatar funded spy project over backlash of World Cup hosting win...
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Counterterrorism
The Terrorism Combating Center at West Point military college in the US published an important study last month on Houthi links to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Lebanon’s Hezbollah. More countries are now mulling listing the IRGC and the Houthis as…
The Department of Treasury of the United States has alleged of a possibility that, the Islamic State in Somalia or Abnaa ul-Calipha an Islamic State–affiliated group that primarily operates in the mountainous areas of Puntland could be working with the Al-Qaeda…
Military & Defense
On Monday, ABC’s Four Corners program broke news that the United States is investing in new infrastructure at RAAF Tindal, the air force base just south of Darwin, so that it can accommodate and support up to six US Air Force bombers. It’s significant not because…
The United Nations nuclear watchdog finds no sign of undeclared nuclear activity across three sites in Ukraine. Russian forces are “likely” to quit the west bank of the Dnipro River, the Moscow-installed head of occupied Kherson says, as city residents are urged to leave…
Cybersecurity
TikTok has officially confirmed that some employees outside the continent, including in China, can access the data of individuals using the app in Europe. The news comes from the social media giant’s head of privacy in Europe, Elaine Fox, who has said access for staff in…
The threat actor behind the RomCom RAT (remote access trojan) has refreshed its attack vector and is now abusing well-known software brands for distribution. In a new campaign discovered by BlackBerry, the RomCom threat actors were found creating websites that clone…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
News has broken in Switzerland of an alleged $387 million intelligence operation funded by Qatar to spy, gather information and destroy the reputations of football executives and who might be contrary to their interests and threaten their ability to complete the hosting of the…
Monday morning. Just two agents, no SWAT team. They steered into his subdivision, a lacework of tree-lined roads behind the Chesterfield Commons retail strip, then passed some brick-and-vinyl houses before stopping at Xiang’s. The agents stepped up to his front door…
Transnational Organized Crime
Two men who are believed to be responsible for the sinking of a boat that cost the lives of at least 22 people at the Strait of Kafireas were arrested by the Port Authority of Karystos, in southern Evia, on Thursday. According to the 12 survivors, the boat was carrying …
Startling reports from the Washington Post, NBC News and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICRJ) last week paint a sordid picture of the reality of human trafficking carried out by some U.S. government contractors on American military bases…