Daily Intel Brief
A Venezuelan aircrew is still grounded for suspected links to the IRGC, L3Harris in talks to buy Pegasus spyware, and a U.S. aircrew was cleared following a deadly incident in Kabul...
Counterterrorism
A major terror attack on Amarnath pilgrims was averted with the killing of two Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists, including one from Pakistan, in an encounter in Srinagar’s Bemina area early Tuesday. Later in the day, another gunfight broke out between a joint team of security…
The Venezuelan crew of a cargo plane grounded outside Buenos Aires since last week may not leave Argentina, a judge ruled Tuesday after their hotel was raided in a probe into possible Iran terror links. Police searched the 14 Venezuelan and five Iranian crew members' rooms…
Military & Defense
The US Air Force crew that took off from an Afghan airport last year while civilians swarmed their plane "acted appropriately", an inquiry has found. People were seen running alongside the air force plane in August 2021 as it left the airport, some clinging to its side, during the…
Taiwan’s top trade negotiator told Reuters on Tuesday that a Chinese military attack on the island would harm the global economy more than Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. John Deng noted that the world relies on Taiwan for computer chips used in electric vehicles and mobile…
Cybersecurity
Every ransomware attack starts with a compromised endpoint, and to that end, threat actors have now started looking into Microsoft Exchange servers. As per a report published by the Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team, at least one unpatched and vulnerable…
Canadian businesses operating in critical infrastructure sectors would be required to report cyber attacks to the federal government and would have to fortify their cyber systems under a new law introduced on Tuesday. The legislation identifies finance, telecommunications…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) announced detaining a Russian agent who passed information about the positions of the Ukrainian military to the Russian soldiers. Investigators for the SSU on Monday said the spy was a resident of Kharkiv who the Russians…
An American defense firm is in talks with the blacklisted NSO Group to potentially buy the Israeli company’s spyware and hacking technology Pegasus, which has been used to surveil politicians, activists and journalists across the world. L3Harris, a global defense contractor…
Transnational Organized Crime
The Mexican Employers Federation said Monday that armed thieves broke into a freight storage area and stole 20 freight containers filled with partly refined gold and silver ore and television sets. The robbery occurred on June 4 at a freight storage area in Manzanillo, a port…
Last week, Assistant Attorney General (AAG) Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division convened a meeting in San Diego to highlight the progress of Joint Task Force Alpha (JTF Alpha) in recognition of the one-year anniversary since its…