Counterterrorism
Sudan's Sovereign Council is to establish an anti-terrorism force to counter "potential threats", it said in a statement on Monday. Huge crowds have regularly taken to the streets demanding a return to civilian rule since a military coup on Oct. 25 ended a power-sharing…
Security forces across the world are investigating whether a British terrorist shot dead after a hostage stand-off in a US synagogue was part of a wider cell. Malik Faisal Akram, 44, died after a 10-hour siege near Dallas on Saturday. He had landed in New York on December 29…
Kuwait has condemned in the strongest terms the cowardly terrorist drone attack by the Houthi militia that targeted civilian facilities in the UAE on Monday, which resulted in the death of three civilians and the injury of others. In a statement issued today, the Kuwaiti…
Military & Defense
Russian military forces and hardware began arriving in ex-Soviet Belarus for joint drills starting in February, Minsk said on Monday, amid soaring tensions between East and West over Ukraine. The "Allied Resolve" exercises will be held near Belarus's western rim…
A spokesman for Yemen's Houthi rebels says the group attacked targets in the United Arab Emirates Monday in retaliation for the UAE’s role in a military offensive in Yemen last week. Abu Dhabi police say that three people were killed in attacks on three oil tanker trucks…
Moscow has again refused to rule out deploying military units to Cuba and Venezuela as tensions with the West over Ukraine simmer, saying it is “exploring options” to ensure Russia’s security. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said last week that he could…
Cybersecurity
Today, January 17, hackers in Ukraine once again attacked state structures. In particular, the Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv has lost access to its electronic systems, and the Prozorro public procurement system forum is still closed. This was announced on its…
Cybersecurity researchers said they discovered a Chinese cyber-espionage group that, besides spying on strategic targets, also dabbled in financially-motivated attacks for their own profits. Named Earth Lusca, the group has spent the past years spying on targets that could be…
The plight of women’s rights campaigners in Bahrain and Jordan is in the spotlight after new revelations that two prominent female activists were hacked multiple times by countries using NSO Group spyware. An investigation by the human rights group Front Line Defenders…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
The Australian government and human rights groups said they are concerned about the deteriorating health of Australian blogger Yang Hengjun, three years after he was detained in China, and with a Beijing court yet to deliver a verdict in an espionage trial heard in secrecy…
On January 14, federal prosecutors recommended that the US Department of Justice dismiss all three charges against MIT nanotechnology professor Gang Chen, ending a two-year ordeal stemming from accusations that he hid funding from Chinese entities on grant disclosure…
U.S. federal agencies have been using a 35-year-old American surveillance law to secretly track WhatsApp users with no explanation as to why and without knowing who they are targeting. In Ohio, a just-unsealed search warrant reveals that in November 2021, DEA…
Transnational Organized Crime
Reported kidnappings have decreased significantly in Mexico, but in recent years, at least one out of every 10 kidnapping victims has been a migrant trying to reach the United States, a situation that could deteriorate further to the benefit of organized crime groups with the…
As well as the arrests, nine vehicles were seized and two weapons taken off the streets, say officers who were involved in Operation Scorpion, which hit the streets on Thursday, January 13. Officers from South Yorkshire Police Operational Support Unit – including the force’s…
Thousands of firearms manufactured or bought in the U.S. end up being used in crimes in Central America, according to an audit released last week that found about half of the weapons are smuggled into the region and the others are exported legally and “diverted”…