Daily Intel Brief
Patriot Front members are arrested in Idaho, NK launches artillery into the sea, and El Salvador's President calls out gang-members as guerillas...
Counterterrorism
At least six people were killed in northern Burkina Faso in several attacks attributed to jihadists, local and military sources told AFP on Sunday. Several hundred people took to the streets of Burkina over the weekend to protest the wave of jihadist attacks engulfing the poor…
Patriot Front is a Texas-based white supremacist and neo-fascist group led by Thomas Ryan Rousseau. The group's roughly 300 members comprise eight regional networks, and as of 2021 had 42 active chapters across the country. Patriot Front’s ideology is outlined in the group’s…
Military & Defense
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Sunday that Turkey has “legitimate concerns” over terrorism and other issues that need to be taken seriously. Turkey has accused Finland and Sweden of supporting Kurdish militants and says it will not back the two Nordic nations…
North Korea test-fired suspected artillery pieces into the sea on Sunday, South Korea’s military said, days after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for greater defense capability to cope with outside threats. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that it detected…
Cybersecurity
After threats by the al-Qaida, comments against Prophet Muhammad — by now-suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma — have led to a slew of cyber attacks on Indian websites, both government and private. Orchestrated by the hacktivist group DragonForce Malaysia…
The Nigerian Police Special Fraud Unit - or PSFU - says it has busted a criminal syndicate, preventing cyberattacks against at least 10 banks in the country. The alleged mastermind, 52-year-old Kehinde Oladimeji, was caught and arrested by the police, along with 27-year-old…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
The FBI searches through databases of foreign communications in a program that Congress created specifically to catch foreign terrorists and spies. But the FBI uses this same program to glean private information about American citizens and our communications. These so-called…
A recently identified Chinese hacking group dubbed "Aoqin Dragon" has been found to have targeted government, education and telecommunication organizations in Southeast Asia and Australia since 2013 as part of an ongoing cyber espionage campaign, according to research…
Transnational Organized Crime
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, who has declared “war” on gangs, warned Saturday that these groups are trying to “evolve” into guerrilla groups by setting up more and more clandestine camps in rural areas. “The captures of gang members are increasingly taking…
Gunmen have released 11 passengers who were abducted during a train attack in northern Nigeria at the end of March, a government minister said, though dozens of others are thought to remain in captivity. Gbemisola Saraki, the minister of state for transportation, said in a…