Counterterrorism
The Israeli Border Police's counter-terrorism unit and Shin Bet security agency arrested a suspect Sunday on Route 6, near the Nachshonim Junction in central Israel, after intelligence indicated he was on his way to perpetrate and attack. The suspect is an illegal Palestinian…
The U.S. State Department has demanded that Mali allow an impartial investigation after reports of a large massacre in the country last week. "We are following the extremely disturbing accounts of large numbers of people killed earlier this week in the village of…
Military & Defense
A Ukrainian mayor and her family were reportedly killed in an "execution style" slaying by Russian troops before being thrown into a pit in a forested area, a local resident told the Associated Press on Sunday. Olga Sukhenko, the mayor of the Ukrainian town of Motyzhyn…
It is nearly 5,000 miles from the scrub and deserts of south-west Sudan to the urbane, calm capital of the Netherlands, and a journey that Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-al-Rahman never thought he would make. Eighteen years ago, the 65-year-old was a “feared and revered”…
Cybersecurity
If you saw some odd posts coming from the @IndStatePolice Twitter account Saturday afternoon, it was not actually from Indiana State Police officers. Twitter accounts of celebrities, politicians, billionaires hacked in cryptocurrency scam…
Anonymous, the famed hacker collective, claimed on Sunday that they leaked the personal information of 120,000 Russian soldiers allegedly fighting in Ukraine. The soldiers' information, which included their names, dates of birth, addresses, unit affiliation and…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
The war in Ukraine is the conflict where spies came in from the cold and took center stage. Since Russia invaded its neighbor in late February, intelligence agencies in the U.S. and Britain have been remarkably willing to go public with their secret intelligence assessments…
Kazakhstan’s security services on Sunday said they have arrested a foreign spy allegedly plotting an attack against the president and other high-level officials. “A foreign intelligence agent, a Kazakh citizen, was arrested on March 25 in Nur-Sultan by the counter-espionage…
Transnational Organized Crime
In a joint operation, Latvian and Lithuanian authorities dismantled two call centres in Riga and a third in Vilnius last week, and arrested 108 suspects of organized crime, according to a Europol press release. More than 200 call representatives - who identified themselves as…
The sight of the state trooper’s flashing lights was enough to send Shaui Sun into a panic as the Queens man sped down a Georgia highway in a rented SUV. Sun and his passenger, Darren Hing Li, were nearly 800 miles from their homes in New York City — and hauling…