Daily Intel Brief
China conducts a live-fire exercise ahead of Pelosi's trip, Russian PMCs are plundering gold in Sudan, and Iran arrests a Swedish citizen on espionage charges...
Counterterrorism
The Taliban on Saturday raised the casualty toll from a hand grenade explosion during a cricket game in the capital of Kabul the previous day, saying two civilians at the stadium died from the blast. No one has so far claimed responsibility for the explosion but the blame is…
Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant-Khorasan (ISIL-K) seeks to strengthen its capabilities by recruiting members from other terror groups and if succeeded in regaining control over the lost territory in eastern Afghanistan, the outfit may prove difficult for the Taliban to reverse such…
Military & Defense
China said it was conducting military exercises Saturday off its coast opposite Taiwan after warning Speaker Nancy Pelosi of the U.S. House of Representatives to scrap possible plans to visit the island democracy, which Beijing claims as part of its territory…
A small explosive device carried by a makeshift drone blew up Sunday at the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet on the Crimean Peninsula, wounding six people and prompting the cancellation of ceremonies there honoring Russia’s navy, authorities said…
Cybersecurity
Sebastian Raoult (Le Français Sébastien Raoult), aka Sezyo, was arrested on June 1st, 2022 from the Rabat international airport and is believed to be one of the alleged members of the infamous ShinyHunters group. A French student has been detained in Morocco on Interpol…
Jacob Wayne John Keen, 24, was arrested for allegedly selling a trojan virus named Imminent Monitor to cyber criminals, domestic violence perpetrators, among others from as many as 128 different countries. The tool allowed users to target unsuspecting victims to steal their…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
Iran said on Saturday that it had arrested a Swedish citizen on espionage charges, the official IRNA news agency reported, after a court in Stockholm sentenced a former Iranian official for war crimes earlier this month. Iran has arrested dozens of foreigners and dual nationals…
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Sunday said it launched a covert operation against alleged spies and infiltrators claiming they work for Turkey, arresting dozens in the process. The operation, dubbed Oath, was conducted by the SDF in several…
Transnational Organized Crime
A cross-border operation involving law enforcement authorities from Croatia, Italy, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia and Spain, and supported by Europol, led to the dismantling of a criminal organization trafficking cocaine from South…
Days after Moscow launched its bloody war on Ukraine, a Russian cargo plane stood on a Khartoum runway, a strip of tarmac surrounded by red-orange sand. The aircraft's manifest stated it was loaded with cookies. Sudan rarely, if ever, exports cookies. A heated debate…