November 2024 Security News |
- Lithuania and the United States mark a milestone of cooperation: bilateral guidelines in cyber security and defence have been established Lithuania MND 28 Nov 2024 -- Lithuania and the United States endorsed a bilateral cyber security and cooperation roadmap 2025-2029 earlier this week. The roadmap not just builds on the already present transatlantic cooperation but also reflects global threats that require coordinated response.
- Afghanistan: Surge in synthetic drugs could threaten public health UN News 27 Nov 2024 -- The latest report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reveals significant gaps in Afghanistan's ability to address substance use disorders, highlighting urgent issues with access, resources, and infrastructure.
- Islamic State figure arrested in Iraqi Kurdistan VOA 23 Nov 2024 -- Iraqi national security officials on Saturday said they arrested the top-ranking Islamic State figure in Iraqi Kurdistan.
- Dual U.S. and Albanian Citizen Arrested for Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS and Distributing Instructions Regarding Homemade Explosives US Dept. of Justice 22 Nov 2024 -- A former New York man and dual citizen of the United States and Albania was arrested yesterday in New York on criminal charges related to his alleged involvement in attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and distributing instructional information regarding the making of explosives.
- High-Ranking Mexican Cartel Leader Arrested on Charges of International Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering After Faking Own Death to Live in California Under Assumed Identity US Dept. of Justice 21 Nov 2024 -- A federal court in the Central District of California unsealed a criminal complaint yesterday charging Cristian Fernando Gutierrez-Ochoa — a high-ranking member of the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) and the son-in-law of the CJNG's leader, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, also known as El Mencho — with international drug trafficking and money laundering offenses. Gutierrez-Ochoa was arrested in Riverside, California, on Nov. 19.
- Annual Cyber Threat Report highlights evolving threat Australia DoD 20 Nov 2024 -- The Australian Signals Directorate's (ASD) Annual Cyber Threat Report for 2023-24 highlights Australia's rapidly evolving cyber threat landscape.
- Treasury Targets Fentanyl Traffickers and Other Key Contributors to U.S. Opioid Crisis US Treasury 19 Nov 2024 -- Today, the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned a network of nine Mexican nationals involved in fentanyl, heroin, and other deadly drug trafficking and money laundering. Individuals designated in this network also engage in human smuggling in furtherance of their drug trafficking activities. Additionally, as members of the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG), some of the individuals sanctioned today played a prominent role in the early stages of the U.S. opioid crisis, a leading factor driving the United States' modern fentanyl crisis. CJNG is a violent Mexico-based drug trafficking organization responsible for a significant proportion of fentanyl and other deadly drugs trafficked into the United States.
- Joint Statement on the Global Forum to Prevent Radiological and Nuclear Terrorism US Dept. of State 15 Nov 2024 -- The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America and the Government of Romania on the occasion of the Global Forum to Prevent Radiological and Nuclear Terrorism.
- Transnational organised crime: 'It's time we pull together to push back' UN News 14 Nov 2024 -- Marking the inaugural International Day for the Prevention of and Fight against All Forms of Transnational Organised Crime on Friday, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has called for unified global efforts to counter these pervasive threats.
- In Briefing to Security Council, Committee Chairs Report on Counter-Terrorism Activities, as Speakers Stress Need for Coordination in Fight against Scourge UN Security Council 14 Nov 2024 -- As the Security Council took up the annual briefing from the chairs of its three counter-terrorism committees today, speakers underscored the urgent need for unity and coordination among the three bodies to strengthen the collective response against terrorist groups whose growing influence and expansion continues to threaten international peace and stability.
- Suspected Chinese hack of US telecoms reveals broader plot VOA 13 Nov 2024 -- A hack of U.S. telecommunications systems linked to China that initially appeared to focus on the American presidential campaigns goes much deeper, according to investigators, and is likely part of a vast effort by Beijing to spy on the United States.
- New York Man Arrested for Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS US Dept. of Justice 06 Nov 2024 -- A criminal complaint was filed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Syed Aman, a U.S. citizen and resident of Nassau County, New York, with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).
- Rise in Afghan opium cultivation reflects economic hardship, despite Taliban ban UN News 06 Nov 2024 -- Opium cultivation in Afghanistan spiked by 19 per cent in 2024, covering an estimated 12,800 hectares despite a ban imposed by the Taliban, a report released on Wednesday by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has revealed.
- UN finds surge in Afghan opium poppy cultivation despite Taliban ban VOA 06 Nov 2024 -- The United Nations reported Wednesday that the cultivation of opium poppies in Afghanistan has increased by an estimated 19% in the second full year since the country's de facto Taliban authorities banned the crop, but cultivation remains far below pre-ban levels.
- FBI Statement on Bomb Threats to Polling Locations FBI 05 Nov 2024 -- The FBI is aware of bomb threats to polling locations in several states, many of which appear to originate from Russian email domains. None of the threats have been determined to be credible thus far.
- Epidemiological update on COVID-19 - 06 Nov 2024
- Russia Linked To Bomb Threats At U.S. Polling Stations, FBI Says RFE/RL 05 Nov 2024 -- The FBI said on November 5 that polling locations in several U.S. states have been the target of bomb threats, many of which appear to originate from Russian domains.
- Officials: Bomb threats against US voting locations coming from Russia VOA 05 Nov 2024 -- A series of Election Day bomb threats sent to polling locations across the United States appears to be coming from Russia, according to new assessments from federal and state officials.
- Russia Linked To Bomb Threats At U.S. Polling Stations, FBI Says RFE/RL 05 Nov 2024 -- The FBI said on November 5 that polling locations in several U.S. states have been the target of bomb threats, many of which appear to originate from Russian domains.
- Connecticut National Guard Assists With Hawthorne Brush Fire Army News 04 Nov 2024 -- Forty aviators, firefighters, and support personnel from the Connecticut National Guard were activated to assist local and state emergency personnel with containing a brush fire that consumed more than 120 acres of wildlife on Lamentation Mountain on Oct. 23.
- Man Arrested and Charged with Attempting to Use a Weapon of Mass Destruction and to Destroy an Energy Facility in Nashville US Dept. of Justice 04 Nov 2024 -- Skyler Philippi, 24, of Columbia, Tennessee, was arrested by federal agents and charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to destroy an energy facility.
- Joint ODNI, FBI, and CISA Statement Director of National Intelligence 04 Nov 2024 -- Today, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released the following statement:
- US issues Election Eve warning of ramped-up Russian influence ops VOA 04 Nov 2024 -- Just hours before tens of millions of U.S. voters headed to the polls for the country's presidential election, U.S. intelligence agencies issued a dire warning about ramped up influence operations - some apparently aimed at convincing Americans to turn on each other.
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