Haiti gang kidnaps American and Canadian missionaries, seek US$1 million per person

Haitian gang had kidnapped a group of American and Canadian missionaries, and is now asking for US$1 million each in order to release them.

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• Haitian gang had kidnaps 17 people, including American and Canadian citizens
• The kidnapper...

2 FBI AGENTS KILLED, 3 INJURED WHILE EXECUTING A SEARCH WARRANT IN FLORIDA

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• Two FBI agents lost their lives, while three were injured in a shooting on Tuesday morning as they were executing a search warrant at home in Sunrise, Florida

• According to the Sunrise Police Department, the incident started just after 6 a.m. at an addr...

US CAPITOL ATTACK WAS A PLANNED ASSAULT SAYS FORMER FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY

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• The former FBI Director James Comey said that the evidence seen by him suggests that the US Capitol attack was a planned assault

• On January 6, thousands of supporters of the US President Donald Trumped stormed the US Capitol and breached the building

FBI AGENTS SEARCH OFFICES & HOMES OF TENNESSEE LAWMAKERS

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• The searched properties included the homes of former GOP House Speaker Glen Casada and state Rep. Robin Smith

• Talking to the reporters, Republican Governor Bill Lee said he had a word with the current House Speaker Cameron Sexton

• Repor...

IRANIAN CYBER ACTORS BEHIND ONLINE DEATH THREATS TO US ELECTION OFFICIALS: FBI

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• Website named “enemiesofthepeople” contained private information and pictures of the government and private sector officials involved in the management of US election

• According to the sources, former head of the US Cybersecurity and Infrast...

U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCIES WERE ATTACKED BY HACKERS: REPORT

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• According to a report from Washington Post, this attack was reportedly done on the support of the Russian government 

• Agencies under the attack were the State Department, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the FBI, the Naval Inf...

MAYFAIR MALL SHOOTING: EIGHT INJURED, POLICE IN SEARCH FOR THE SUSPECT

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• According to the tweets by the FBI and the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s office, their officers were on the scene at the Mayfair Mall, located in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin

• The Wauwatosa Police Department in a statement said “When emergency personne...

RUSSIAN HACKERS TRIED TO BREAK INTO US STATE & LOCAL GOVERNMENT NETWORKS: US INTEL

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• According to the intelligence agencies, a Russian group sometimes called Dragonfly or Berserk Bear by researchers sometimes had targeted several state, tribal, local and territorial US governments and aviation networks

• The Federal Bureau of Investigati...

FBI, LOCAL POLICE THWART PLAN TO KIDNAP MICHIGAN GOV. GRETCHEN WHITMER

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• According to Mara Schneider, a representative for the FBI Detroit Field Officer, a home registered in the name of Ty Garbin located in Hartland Meadows manufactured housing community was raided by FBI agents on late Wednesday night and into Thursday morning

&...

FBI DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER WRAY WON’T STEP DOWN SAYS A BUREAU OFFICIAL

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• The U.S. President and his supporters believe that Trump’s 2016 campaign was monitored and the files revealing this should be released by the FBI

• According to a FBI official, Christopher Wray, who started serving his 10-year term in the year 2017...

FBI STARTS INVESTIGATION INTO $15 MILLION BUSINESS EMAIL SCAM

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• According to the cyber security researchers from Mitiga, this email campaign uses social engineering techniques go impersonate senior executives with the help of Microsoft Office 365 email services

• The ulterior motive of the BEC scam is to target busin...

FBI TO INVESTIGATE 9 DISCARDED MILITARY MAIL-IN BALLOTS FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP IN PENNSYLVANIA

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• The Justice Department said that at this point they can confirm that a small number of military ballots were discarded and the investigators have recovered nine ballots at this time

• The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Friday ruled that officials could re...

PUTIN PROBABLY DIRECTING INFLUENCE OPERATIONS AGAINST DEMOCRAT BIDEN: CIA ASSESSMENT

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• As per a recent report, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had assessed in the month of August that the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin and his senior most officials are aware of and probably directing Russia’s influence operations against Joe Biden

JOE BIDEN TO BE ENDORSED BY FORMER REPUBLICAN SECURITY OFFICIALS FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

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• Joe Biden to be endorsed by former republican security officials for Presidential elections.
• More than 70 members of the former Republican security officials plan to back up Biden.
• The group includes ex-CIA, FBI chiefs, ...

US EX-CIA HONG KONG ORIGIN OFFICER ARRESTED FOR ESPIONAGE

HIGHLIGHTS

• US has charged an ex CIA officer for selling secrets to China. He has been accused of giving crucial information.

For years Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 67, was providing intelligence data to a former intelligence officer who happened to ...

EX CIA & NATURALISED US CITIZEN BORN IN HONG KONG FOUND SPYING FOR CHINA

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•    The man found guilty is an ex CIA officer

•    He has passed on many documents containing information about national defense to the Chinese

The US government’s stand that the Chinese engage in espionage i...

SABRE, WORLDS LARGEST TRAVEL DATABASE HOLDER USED BY FBI FOR SUSPECT SURVEILLANCE

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• Sabre, Travelport and Amadeus used by FBI for suspect surveillance 
• Question of privacy breach is raised on the same

With the fact that criminals are often on the move, FBI has been working with Sabre, the world’s largest...

TWITTER: HACKERS HAD INTERNAL HELP, PASSWORDS OF 45 ACCOUNTS RESET

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• The Bitcoin scam using Twitter handles of high profile individuals and businesses is being investigated by the FBI 
• 130 accounts were hacked into

• 8 were unverified accounts.  

Twitter’s...