Daily Intel Brief
North Korea fires missiles off the South Korean coast, Saudi Arabia shares intel on a suspected Iranian attack, and the U.S. sanctions an ISIS-Somalian smuggling network...
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Counterterrorism
An American woman who led an all-female Islamic State battalion was sentenced to 20 years in prison Tuesday after she admitted to training dozens of women and girls in Syria for the militant group known as ISIS, federal authorities said. At a sentencing hearing Tuesday, the…
Swedish prosecutors on Tuesday indicted a man suspected of murdering a woman and planning to kill a senior politician in July with "terrorist crime through murder", and "preparation of terrorist crime through the preparation of murder". The 33-year-old was…
Military & Defense
A North Korean ballistic missile landed less than 60 kilometres off South Korea's coast on Wednesday, the first time an apparent test had landed near the South's waters, leading to air raid warnings, officials said. The missile was one of three short-range ballistic missiles fired…
Saudi Arabia has shared intelligence with American officials that suggests Iran could be preparing for an imminent attack on the kingdom, three U.S. officials said Tuesday. The heightened concerns about a potential attack on Saudi Arabia as the Biden administration…
Cybersecurity
The UK is spending millions of pounds in strengthening Ukraine’s cyber defences, protecting the country’s critical infrastructure and public services against malicious attacks, the government has revealed. In response to a rising “tempo” of Russian cyber activity after…
A“rogue employee” who last week hacked the website of The New York Post and posted a number of racist, sexist and violent headlines, has described his actions as the result of an “emotional tantrum”. Speaking to The Daily Beast newsletter Confider, Miguel Gonzalez, 25…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
National security leaders have long warned that technologies produced by Huawei, ZTE, and other Chinese companies could be used as conduits for foreign espionage, hacking, and other nefarious activities. But state and local government agencies across the United States are still…
The Dutch ambassador in Moscow has been “carpeted” by the Kremlin in an escalating row over allegations that the Netherlands facilitated a “provocative” attempt by the British intelligence service to recruit a Russian diplomat in The Hague last month. The ambassador…
Transnational Organized Crime
A court in Sicily on Tuesday convicted 91 defendants of roles in a organized crime scheme that bilked the European Union of some 5 million euros (dollars) in subsidies for grazing land on the Mediterranean island. The reading of the verdicts and sentences took so long, the…
The United States Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control has sanctioned a network of arms traffickers and associated businesses for supporting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria's Somali branch, ISIS-Somalia. The ISIS-Somalia-linked individuals…