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Detect, Deter, Defeat Terrorism

Our objective is to protect you, your organization, and your personnel against acts of terrorism and critical threats. CTG professionals develop customized services and solutions that will help you Detect, Deter, and Defeat terrorism or other threats that target you, your people, or your assets’ physical security.

FINLAND’S DEFENCE COMMAND WARNED ABOUT INCREASED RISK OF UNDERSEA INFRASTRUCTURE SABOTAGE, AND IN THE USA, FROZEN TEMPERATURES AND RESTRICTED GAS SUPPLIES CAUSED POWER OUTAGES

January 22-28, 2026 | Issue 4 - Emergency Management, Health, and Hazards (EMH2) Team Lavinia Ansalone, Giovanni Lamberti, Cora Jordan, Ludovica Leccese, Halleli Alpert Elizabeth Fignar, Editor; Elena Alice Rossetti, Senior Editor Maritime Surveillance [1] Date : January 22, 2026 Location : Baltic Sea Parties involved : NATO; NATO military commands; NATO members; NATO members’ national authorities; Finland’s Defence Command; privat

A MID-AIR BOMB THREAT SENT VIA IN-FLIGHT HOTSPOT FORCED FLIGHT TK1853 TO LAND IN SPAIN, AND THE CHILEAN GOVERNMENT DECLARED A STATE OF CATASTROPHE OVER WIDESPREAD WILDFIRES

January 15-21, 2026 | Issue 3 - Emergency Management, Health, and Hazards (EMH2) Team Jacob Fields, Khushi Salian, Ignacio Valdés Fuentes, Chiara Michieli, Nirmal Jose, Marija Lazicj, Andrew Britland, Nimaya Premachandra, Agathe Labadi Clémence Van Damme, Senior Editor Commercial Flight [1] Date : January 15, 2026 Location : Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport, Barcelona, Spain Parties involved : Spain; El Prat airport; Turkish authorities; Turkish public prosecuto

THE IRANIAN GOVERNMENT SHUT DOWN INTERNET AND TELEPHONE SERVICES DURING PROTESTS, AND RUSSIA TARGETED ENERGY GRID IN UKRAINE

January 8-14, 2026 | Issue 2 - Emergency Management, Health, and Hazards (EMH2) Team Ludovica Leccese, Giovanni Lamberti, Lavinia Ansalone, Halleli Alpert, Cora Jordan Elizabeth Fignar, Editor; Elena Alice Rossetti, Senior Editor Infrastructure Shut Down [1] Date : January 8, 2026 Location : Iran Parties involved : Iran; Iranian government; protesters; Iranian diaspora; US; Israel; regional and international adversaries; anti-Western and anti-Israeli audience; non-governm

ESTONIAN AND FINNISH AUTHORITIES INVESTIGATE BALTIC SEA UNDERSEA COMMUNICATION CABLE DAMAGE AND RADIO COMMUNICATION FAILURE DISRUPTS CIVIL AVIATION TRAFFIC IN GREECE

January 1-7, 2026 | Issue 1 - Emergency Management, Health, and Hazards (EMH2) Team Agathe Labadi, Khushi Salian, Lucy Gibson, Jacob Fields, Indira Hankins, Chiara Michieli, Camilla Montemarano, Andrew Britland, Ignacio Valdés Fuentes, Marija Lazic, Jeffrey Glibowski, Nimaya Premachandra, Nirmal Jose Clémence Van Damme, Senior Editor; Jennifer Loy, Chief Editor Monitoring Communications Networks [1] Date : December 31, 2025 Location : Kantvik, Uusimaa District, Finland Partie

FLASH ALERT: US CONDUCTS LARGE-SCALE ATTACK ON VENEZUELA; PRESIDENT MADURO AND WIFE CAPTURED AND INDICTED ON CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT NARCOTERRORISM; INSTABILITY IN THE REGION EXPECTED

(The Flash Alert [FA] is a near real-time brief of a possible threat or situation being monitored by The Counter Threat Center. The information is accurate at the time of reporting, but may be subject to change.) Lydia Baccino, Khushi Salian, Ignacio Valdés Fuentes, Emily Katrina Bustillos, Chiara Michieli NORTHCOM & SOUTHCOM Elizabeth Fignar, Editor; Elena Alice Rossetti, Senior Editor January 4, 2026 Venezuelan Flag [1] The Counterterrorism Group (CTG) is issuing a FLASH

TRUST WALLET ANNOUNCED THAT UNKNOWN HACKERS BREACHED ITS CHROME EXTENSION, DECRYPTING PASSWORDS, AND CYBERTHREAT ACTORS EXPLOITED A MONGODB VULNERABILITY TO EXTRACT SENSITIVE DATA

December 25-31, 2025 | Issue 50 - CICYBER Team Nimaya Premachandra, Matan Lieberman, Victoria Kotey, Lucy Gibson, Agathe Labadi, CICYBER Elena Alice Rossetti, Senior Editor Personally Identifiable Information Breach [1] Date : December 26, 2025 Location : San Francisco, California, US Parties involved : Cryptocurrency platform Trust Wallet; cryptocurrency exchange platform Binance; human resources (HR); employees; employees working on the Chrome extension; developers; cent

GUNMEN ATTACK CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION IN PERU, LEAVING AN OFFICIAL DEAD AND CHILDREN INJURED, AND IN COLOMBIA, AN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY OBSTRUCTS AN ARMY OPERATION, ENABLING ELN TO ABDUCT SOLDIERS

December 18-24, 2025 | Issue 49 - SOUTHCOM Team Jacob Fields, Valentina Gonzalez, Candela Echeverría, Jacob Robison Clémence Van Damme, Senior Editor Bullets Left at the Crime Scene [1] Date : December 18, 2025 Location : Sausal, Ascope Province, Peru Parties involved : Peru; authorities; Ascope provincial government; municipal councilwoman murdered in the attack Elena Rojas Alcalde; officials; preferred candidates; Gunmen; criminal networks; seven wounded individuals; ci

IN PORTUGAL, TRADE UNIONS WENT ON A GENERAL STRIKE AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT’S LABOR REFORM PROPOSAL, AND A GERMAN AFD LAWMAKER CALLED FOR AN ALLIANCE BETWEEN GERMAN AND US NATIONALIST PARTIES

December 11-17, 2025 | Issue 48 - EUCOM Team Marija Lazic, Leon Kille, Chiara Michieli, Jacob Fields Elena Alice Rossetti, Senior Editor Protests [1] Date : December 11, 2025 Location : Portugal Parties involved : Portugal; government; trade unions; opposition parties; governing-aligned actors dissenting from the reform; transport and public services; employers and investors in transport-dependent sectors; transport providers; media and civic spaces; citizens The event : Tr

LIBYAN AUTHORITIES ANNOUNCED THEY WILL INCREASE THEIR DEPORTATIONS OF ILLEGAL MIGRANTS, AFFECTING REGIONAL RELATIONS AND SOLDIERS ATTEMPTED A COUP D'ÉTAT IN BENIN, BUT IT WAS THWARTED

December 4-10, 2025 | Issue 48 - CENTCOM/AFRICOM Team Giovanni Lamberti, Amelia Bell, Cora Jordan, Benjamin Baruch, Ludovica Leccese Elizabeth Fignar, Editor; Jennifer Loy, Chief Editor Land Migration in Africa [1] Date : December 4, 2025 Location : Libya Parties involved : Libya; government; Libyan authorities; European Union (EU); member states; European Union Integrated Border Management Assistance Mission in Libya (EUBAM); European Union Border and Coast Guard Agency Fron

OSINT TOOLKIT: BLACKBIRD, A PYTHON-BASED TOOL THAT INVESTIGATES USERNAMES TO MAP A TARGET’S DIGITAL FOOTPRINT ACROSS SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS

Priscilla Alves Pereira, Christian Collins, Mekhala Jambholkar, OSINT-RDT Team James Raggio, Editor; Jennifer Loy, Chief Editor December 12, 2025 Industry : Online Investigations, Threat and Social Media Intelligence (The Open Source Intelligence [OSINT] Toolkit is a report to help teach about various OSINT tools that can be used by Threat, Security, Intelligence, and Investigative Professionals [TSIIPs]) Account Search Across Social Media Platforms [1] What is the BLUF about

EMERGING THREAT REPORT: A DOMINANCE OF CYBERATTACKS ON CRITICAL INFASTRUCTURE; GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION OF ARMED ASSAULTS; AND THE MILITARY/JUNTA ATTACKS WITHIN THE TRANSITIONAL NATIONS

(The DTAR Emerging Threat Report is to help Threat, Security, Intelligence, and Investigative Professionals [TSIIPs] with threat awareness and prevention.) [1] Nirmal Jose, Isobel Allen, Andrew Britland, Jeffrey Glibowski, Ignacio Valdés Fuentes, WATCH/GSOC Team Jackie Heier, Meghan Terry, Gabe Halupka, Jen Radlinsky, Editors; Jennifer Loy, Chief Editor November 13-26, 2025 *Events that affect multiple critical infrastructure sectors are counted within each sector Emerging Th

OHCHR WARNS ABOUT THE MYANMAR MILITARY JUNTA’S TACTICS BEFORE THE ELECTIONS, AND INDIA DECLARES IT IS CLOSELY MONITORING TERRORIST ACTIVITIES ALONG THE LINE OF CONTROL AND IS READY TO RESPOND

November 27 - December 3, 2025 | Issue 46 - PACOM Team Nimaya Premachandra, Matan Lieberman, Victoria Kotey, Lucy Gibson, Agathe Labadi, PACOM Elena Alice Rossetti, Senior Editor Elections [1] Date : November 28, 2025 Location : Myanmar Parties involved : Myanmar military junta; junta officials; pro-regime Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP); anti-regime armed resistance groups; armed groups; in-person informants; informants; civilians; citizens; polpulations; cit

MARYLAND INDICTS A MEMBER OF THE 764 GROUP ON CHILD-EXPLOITATION CHARGES, AND IN SYRIA, A BEDOUIN COUPLE DIES IN AN ATTACK MARKED BY SECTARIAN SYMBOLS

November 20-26, 2025 | Issue 45 - Extremism Team Valentina González, Jacob Fields, Jacob Robison, Candela Echeverría Clémence Van Damme, Senior Editor Malicious Internet Usage [1] Date : November 20, 2025 Location : Baltimore, Maryland, USA Parties involved : USA; US Attorney's Office of Maryland; state law enforcement; federal law enforcement; Nihilistic online extremist group 764; 764 members; 764 member Erik Lee Madison; 764 victims; cyber-sexual exploitation offenders;

EMERGING THREAT REPORT: RISING ATTACKS ON THE TRANSPORTATION SECTOR, A GAP IN COUNTERTERRORISM EFFORTS COMPARED TO TOTAL THREAT/ATTACK NUMBERS, AND BOMBINGS/EXPLOSIONS ARE A PROMINENT THREAT WORLDWIDE

(The DTAR Emerging Threat Report is to help Threat, Security, Intelligence, and Investigative Professionals [TSIIPs] with threat awareness and prevention.) 1 Aldara Carballal Presas, Camilla Montemarano, Khushi Salian, Mekhala Jambholkar, Natalie Goldwasser, WATCH/GSOC Team Jackie Heier, Meghan Terry, Editors; Jennifer Loy, Chief Editor November 1-12, 2025I Emerging Threat #1: From November 1 to 12, 91 events affecting critical infrastructure were recorded. 24 of those events

IRAN WATER CRISIS INTENSIFIES, AND IN THE PHILIPPINES, CITIZENS PROTEST AGAINST CORRUPTION IN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

November 13-19, 2025 | Issue 44 - Emergency Management, Health and Hazard Team (EMH2) Chiara Michieli, Leon Kille, Marija Lazic, Cristina Calvo Elena Alice Rossetti, Editor; Camilla Raffaelli, Senior Editor Water Dam [1] Date : November 12, 2025 Location : Iran Parties involved : Iran; Iranian Ministry of Energy; government; government security forces; pro-reform newspapers; pro-reform news outlet Etemad; citizens; farmers; agricultural workers; herding communities; United Ar

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