Daily Intel Brief
South Korea and the U.S. launch a volley of missiles into the sea, the U.S. reveals hackers maintained deep access to military org networks, and Japan expels a Russian consul...
Counterterrorism
Militants with small arms attacked a convoy of Pakistani security forces near the northwest border with Afghanistan, triggering an intense shootout that killed two soldiers and three insurgents, the military said Tuesday. The firefight happened near Peshawar, the capital of…
U.S. citizens planning to go on an international trip may want to take the time to check online as the State Department issued new Travel Advisories for Italy, France, Belize and other countries on Tuesday. In total, 81 new Travel Advisories were posted, including four…
Military & Defense
South Korea and the U.S. military fired a volley of missiles into the sea in response to North Korea's launch of a ballistic missile over Japan, Seoul said on Wednesday, as Pyongyang's longest-range test yet drew international condemnation. Nuclear-armed North Korea test…
Russia’s forces occupying Ukraine’s southern Black Sea region of Kherson have suffered serious territorial losses to Kyiv’s troops over recent days, maps published by Moscow’s defence ministry showed. The ministry’s daily video briefing made no mention of any pullbacks on…
Cybersecurity
Large swathes of Bangladesh were left without electricity on Tuesday after a grid failure, a government official said, adding that authorities were working to gradually restore power supply in the country of 168 million people. The country's power grid malfunctioned at…
U.S. cybersecurity, law enforcement and intelligence officials revealed on Tuesday that sophisticated hackers infiltrated a likely U.S. military contractor and maintained “persistent, long-term” access to their system. The National Security Agency, the Cybersecurity…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
Japan ordered a Russian consul in Sapporo to leave the country by October 10 in retaliation for the expulsion of a Japanese consul in Vladivostok last month, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday. Japan's decision comes after Russia's FSB security agency…
Aleksandar Vucic told media in Budapest on Tuesday that neither Serbia as a state nor any of its citizens are involved in the alleged leaks of confidential data about Romania’s natural resources from the Romanian branch of the Serbia-based energy company NIS Petrol…
Transnational Organized Crime
Liberian authorities acting on U.S. security intelligence have arrested two foreigners and are searching for two more suspected of trying to smuggle $100 million of cocaine seized in the West African country, officials said Tuesday. The estimated value of the drugs is one-fifth…
Motorcycle-riding gunmen killed a longtime radio commentator in metropolitan Manila in the latest attack on a member of the media in the Philippines, considered one of the world's most dangerous countries for journalists. Police said Percival Mabasa, 63, was driving his…