Daily Intel Brief
The Pentagon asserts that Turkish airstrikes threaten U.S. personnel, Russia claims it foiled a sabotage plot on a gas pipeline, and the head of Slovakia's central bank faces bribery charges...
Counterterrorism
Russian authorities say a gunman opened fire in a southern city on Thursday fatally injuring three people and then killed himself. The violence took place in the city of Krymsk in the Krasnodar region, about 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) south of Moscow. Alexander Runov…
Armed groups in Colombia are confining people to their homes and communities in a bid to exert control over territory, said the Norwegian Refugee Council, which called on the authorities to do more to ensure citizens can move freely. The NRC said on Thursday that…
Military & Defense
Turkish air attacks in northern Syria threaten the safety of United States military personnel and the escalating situation is jeopardising years of progress against ISIL (ISIS) fighters, the Pentagon has said. The public comments on Wednesday represent the strongest…
“They’re trying to break us, plunge us into darkness and cold during wartime and force us to negotiate on the aggressor’s terms,” he said. “It won’t actually work. We understand that the frequency (of massive missile attacks on Ukraine) is about a week. That is, this is the period…
Cybersecurity
INTERPOL has announced the seizure of $130,000,000 million worth of money and virtual assets linked to various cybercrimes and money laundering operations. The law enforcement operation is codenamed "HAECHI III" and lasted between June 28 and November 23, 2022…
Iranian-backed Palestinian terror group Hamas, the de facto rulers of the impoverished Gaza Strip, is stepping up its cyber activities against Israel. And it's time for Western nations, including the U.S., to take such threats more seriously, a report published recently by…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
A former employee of Quebec’s power utility charged with spying on behalf of China denied on Thursday that he is a flight risk and said he intends to remain in Canada to fight the charges. “I want to stay here to clear my name,” Yuesheng Wang told the court during the…
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday that it had prevented Ukrainian special services from carrying out what it said was sabotage on the "South Stream" gas pipeline. "As a result of a set of investigative measures, [the FSB] prevented an attempt by…
Transnational Organized Crime
In a heist that would have put Caesar’s sack of Gaul to shame, nearly 500 golden coins produced by an ancient Celtic culture in what is now southern Germany were boosted from the Celtic and Roman Museum in the Bavarian town of Manching, Germany this week…
The head of Slovakia's central bank, Peter Kazimir, is facing bribery charges for a second time. Prosecutors had earlier dropped charges over the alleged bribe, which goes back to when he was a finance minister. He has condemned the allegation and denies any wrongdoing…