Counterterrorism
The Israeli government on Sunday approved a proposal to upgrade the Police Counter-Terrorism Unit and rename it the Israel National Counter-Terrorism Unit, according to an official statement. The goal of the move, which was initiated by Israeli Prime Minister…
The Israel Police stated Sunday that it completed an investigation of a suspect arrested for inciting terrorism and supporting a terrorist organization. The suspect is Hassan Yousef, a co-founder of Hamas who serves as one of its leaders in the Judea and Samaria region…
Afghan Taliban’s military offensive that started in May 2021 and peaked in August 2021 with the takeover of Kabul also coincided with terrorist attacks in Pakistan, reveals data released by the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Study (PICSS). The highest number of…
Military & Defense
When the young farmhand returned to his village in Myanmar, he found the still smoldering corpses in a circle in a burned-out hut, some with their limbs tied. The Myanmar military had stormed Done Taw at 11 a.m. on Dec. 7, he told the Associated Press, with about 50 soldiers…
Security forces killed two people during protests in Sudan on Sunday against military rule, a doctors' committee said. This brought to 56 the death toll in protests since a coup on Oct. 25, the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors said. The committee said that the first man was…
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen is warning China that "military adventurism" is not the answer, Reuters reported on Sunday. "We must remind the Beijing authorities to not misjudge the situation and to prevent the internal expansion of military adventurism," Tsai said in a…
Cybersecurity
According to a recent survey by Venafi, ransomware attacks spiked by 250% in the first half of 2021 alone. By the end of 2021, it’s estimated that every 11 seconds, an organization will be hit with a ransomware attack. These rising threats led to almost two-thirds of security…
Cyber Attack on UK's Defence Academy Had 'Significant' Impact, Officer in Charge at the Time Reveals
A cyber attack – possibly by China or Russia – hit the academic arm of the UK's Ministry of Defence and had a "significant" impact, the officer in charge at the time has revealed. Air Marshal Edward Stringer, who retired from the armed forces in August, said the…
The nightmare of America under cyberattack is happening now and it is not going to stop anytime soon. Foreign adversaries and criminal gangsters alike are hammering all aspects of society from hospitals to schools to government offices. In December alone, a ransomware…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
A recent report revealed that China is using Western social media to provide information about foreign targets to its military and police. This was concluded following a review of hundreds of Chinese bidding documents, contracts, and company registrations, ANI reported…
An unidentified person has crossed the heavily armed border from South Korea into North Korea, the South Korean military said on Sunday. The person was spotted at the eastern front of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) at around 9:20 p.m. local time on Saturday, South Korea's…
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) on Sunday said the House select committee probing the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol will recommend new intelligence-gathering legislation following its investigation into the deadly rioting. Pressed by host George Stephanopoulos on ABC's…
Transnational Organized Crime
"The police operatives succeeded in rescuing 21 kidnapped children" after a gun battle with the criminals, Zamfara police spokesman Mohammed Shehu said in a statement issued late Saturday. Central and northwestern Nigeria are home to criminal gangs, known locally as…
Europe has now replaced America as the main market for cocaine. As the Wall Street Journal said in a recent article, Antwerp, the “number 1 port in Europe for cocaine busts” is a “repeat of Miami in the 1980s.” The surge in drug use, and especially of cocaine in Europe is most…
In the past year, more than 250 guns have been taken off the streets of Springfield. The head of the police department’s newly created gun unit says there are still more coming in every day. “The availability of guns is unprecedented,” said Capt. Brian Keenan. The increase is due in…