Daily Intel Brief
European leaders think Nord Stream leaks were deliberate sabotage, ISIS seeks to spark U.S. civil war through lone-wolf attacks, and Meta disrupts Chinese influence ops...
Counterterrorism
Since the last U.S. military planes left Kabul in August 2021, Islamic State’s Wilayat Khorasan has become the most dangerous Salafi-Jihadi group in Central Asia drowning Taliban-ruled Afghanistan in blood and threatening the national security of Pakistan, Iran, India, China…
Two suspected Kurdish militants opened fire on police in southern Turkey and later killed themselves by detonating suicide bombs, Turkey’s interior minister said. One police officer was killed in the attack while a second officer and a civilian were wounded. The attack was…
Military & Defense
Denmark said Tuesday it believed “deliberate actions” by unknown perpetrators were behind big leaks, which seismologists said followed powerful explosions, in two natural gas pipelines running under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany. European leaders and experts pointed…
Twelve civilians were killed and five civilians were injured because of US military operations in 2021, according to a congressionally mandated Pentagon report released Tuesday. Ten of the civilians killed in 2021 were killed during a botched drone strike the US military...
Cybersecurity
An infusion of cash from a Taiwanese semiconductor magnate is helping fund new cyber defense training for Taiwanese citizens. Why it matters: The goal is to fight online disinformation and hybrid warfare that could accompany a potential Chinese military…
A cyber attack on NHS systems spotted nearly two months ago is still "compromising" the quality of care trusts can provide, a health boss said. Software used for check-ins, notes and the NHS 111 service was affected by the ransomware attack found on 4 August…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
U.S. and allied intelligence agencies are stepping up efforts to detect any Russian military moves or communications that might signal that Vladimir Putin has ordered the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine, according to five current and former U.S. officials…
Meta Platforms has said it disrupted the first known China-based influence operation focused on targeting users in the United States with political content in advance of the midterm elections in November. The network maintained fake accounts across Meta’s…
Transnational Organized Crime
German police raided on Tuesday the luxury yacht of a Russian businessman suspected of laundering hundreds of millions via offshore companies, the Frankfurt Public Prosecutor's Office said. German media reported that the megayacht belongs to sanctioned Uzbek-born…
Mexican authorities arrested a leader of an extremist ultra-orthodox Jewish sect in southern Mexico accused of organized crime and human trafficking, state and federal officials said Tuesday. Officials also said an unspecified number of women and children were removed…