Daily Intel Brief
Russian fighter jet fires missile at RAF recon plane, Indian spy agency procures equipment used for Pegasus, Iran helping Russia on the ground in Crimea...
Counterterrorism
A New York straphanger who lost a duel with a swordsman on a Manhattan subway Thursday morning had been accused of planting fake bombs on another commuter train back in 2019, igniting a terror scare, according to authorities…
A man accused of helping find weapons for the jihadist gunmen who attacked the Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Jewish supermarket in France eight years ago was given a life sentence after his appeal trial, a judicial source said Thursday. Ali Riza Polat, 37, who contests the…
Military & Defense
The White House has accused Iran of being “directly engaged on the ground” in Russian-occupied Crimea, helping to train the country’s forces on Iranian-made drones that have been used in attacks in Ukraine. US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby…
A Russian fighter jet recently released a missile "in the vicinity" of a Royal Air Force reconnaissance plane conducting a patrol mission in Eastern Europe, UK Defense Minister Ben Wallace said Thursday. The unarmed RC-135W Rivet Joint was in the middle of a…
Cybersecurity
Singapore has created a new task force to help businesses and research and educational institutions defend against an increased number of ransomware attacks. The Counter Ransomware Task Force (CRTF), in particular, will focus on protecting those entities that…
A Russian-speaking ransomware group dubbed OldGremlin has been attributed to 16 malicious campaigns aimed at entities operating in the transcontinental Eurasian nation over the course of two and a half years. "The group's victims include companies in sectors such as…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
Indian officials have dismissed reports that it purchased the Pegasus spyware in 2017 as “sensationalism.” Trade data shows a hardware shipment to its main domestic intelligence agency was made matching specifications in a Pegasus brochure. India’s Intelligence Bureau…
Mali's foreign affairs minister says the military government will exercise its right to self-defence if France "continues to undermine'" the country's sovereignty and national security. Speaking at a United Nations Security Council briefing on Mali in New York, Minister…
Transnational Organized Crime
Colombia, the world's leading cocaine producer, broke its own record for coca leaf cultivation in 2021, a UN body said Thursday, as the government highlighted the "failure" of the US-led war on drugs. There was "an increase of 43 percent in the area planted with coca...
The so-called “Princess of Orange,” heir apparent of the Dutch Monarchy, was forced to return home to the Hague, just months after heading off to the University of Amsterdam, due to threats from organized criminal groups, her parents said at a press conference, during a…