NEW: @POTUS not alone saying #Russia amassed 150,000 troops along #Ukraine's borders
New report from #Estonia's foreign intel service says "Russia mobilized 150,000 men...deploying units & capabilities from all its military districts, including the Far East, & all 12 armies"
More" #Russia has set up full logistic support for the force groups, bringing in additional command & rear units & forward-deploying munitions in the Ukrainian direction" per #Estonia intel
"The contingent is supported by a regionally dominant air force and #Russia’s #BlackSea Fleet, equipped with Kalibr missiles" per #Estonia Foreign Intelligence Service
"In our assessment, the #Russia|n Armed Forces are ready to embark on a full-scale military operation against #Ukraine from the second half of February" per assessment from #Estonia Foreign Intelligence Service
"Should #Russia achieve its goals in #Ukraine, political and military pressure on the #Baltic states could increase" per #Estonia Foreign Intelligence Service
"Even if #Russia’s leadership can be persuaded to desist from military aggression...Western countries must prepare for increasingly sustained military pressure" per #Estonia intel
"Direct threats of war have become an integral part of the foreign policy of #Putin’s Russia"
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- Brute force techniques
- Spearphishing emails
- Harvested credentials
- Mapping Active Directory
- Maintaining access for months
"Over the last several years, we have observed and documented a host of malicious activity conducted by #Russia|n state-sponsored cyber actors targeting US critical infrastructure" per @CISAJen in statement
Just in: #alQaida releases 3rd video from leader Ayman al-Zawahiri this month - this one billed as episode 4 in his "Deal of the Century" lecture series
NEW: #alQaida "maintained a low profile in #Afghanistan...likely at the behest of #Taliban leaders attempting to establish legitimacy with the int'l community" per acting @DoD_IG Sean O'Donnell in new report
Per @CENTCOM, @DefenseIntel "#Taliban has not permitted al-Qaeda members to play a significant role in its so-called “interim government” & will likely
aim to prevent #alQaida attacks on the United States as it attempts to gain international legitimacy" says @DoD_IG report
.@CENTCOM "said that the #Taliban very likely will allow #alQaida elements in #Afghanistan to maintain a low profile within the country to preserve legacy relationships & avoid upsetting the most militant Islamic elements within the Taliban" per @DoD_IG report
Threat landscape in the US - "A lot has changed" since December, @DHSgov's John Cohen, the senior official performing the duties of the Undersecretary of Intelligence & Analysis tells @gwupoe
Foreign intel services, foreign terrorist orgs also "promoting socio-political content...for the purposes of sowing discord" in the #UnitedStates per @DHSgov's Cohen
"These narratives have in fact led to attacks in this country"