Counterterrorism
In a joint operation, Israel Police and Shabak agents have arrested a terrorist from Hebron who is suspected of having murdered Yehuda and Tamar Kaduri in their Jerusalem home in 2019, and who is also being linked to an attempt to murder a young girl in the capital’s…
The Manchester man accused in last week’s violent, antisemitic crime spree in Lakewood and Jackson is now charged with terrorism related to the series of attacks. Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer and Lakewood Police Chief Gregory Meyer on Thursday…
Military & Defense
One of Russia's most essential warships, a guided missile cruiser named Moskva, sank on Thursday while it was being towed to port, the Russian military said. The Ukrainian military said its forces had badly damaged the ship with a missile strike off Ukraine's battered…
U.S. backed Kurdish-led forces tightened the siege on neighborhoods under the control of the Syrian government in two Kurdish-controlled cities in northeast Syria, officials from both sides said on Thursday. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said they took over about 10…
Cybersecurity
Malware designed to target industrial control systems like power grids, factories, water utilities, and oil refineries represents a rare species of digital badness. So when the United States government warns of a piece of code built to target not just one of those industries…
State-owned Oil India Ltd (OIL) has suffered a major cyber-attack in its field headquarters in eastern Assam's Duliajan, with the hacker demanding $75,00,000, officials said on Wednesday. OIL's Manager, Security, Sachin Kumar, who filed an FIR with the police on…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
For years, the Kremlin's power to weave disinformation into a believable narrative was a seemingly ever-present boogeyman, threatening to disrupt elections and sew discord thousands of miles away from Moscow. Then, as Russia prepared to invade Ukraine, the tide started to…
The Justice Department indicted a Russian lawmaker and two staffers Thursday on charges of waging a propaganda campaign in the United States that was hostile to Ukraine, years before Moscow's invasion. The lawmaker, Aleksandr Babakov, was already under US sanctions and…
Transnational Organized Crime
The full threat posed to Mexico's biodiversity by both Mexican and Chinese organized crime networks has been revealed in a new report, which shows how unsustainable quantities of Mexico's marine and terrestrial wildlife are being poached. This investigation by the…
Brazil and Paraguay initiated on Tuesday a regional security project that will allow their security forces to quickly exchange information, organize joint operations and reduce bureaucratic procedures when combating organized crime. Brazilian Minister of Justice…