Intelligence Brief: World and Security Events

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Critical Infrastructure 🏗️

• Airbus Issues Major A320 Recall after Flight-Control Incident due to intense solar radiation potentially corrupting data critical to flight controls. This affects roughly 6,000 jets.
  
  [28 November 2025] – link
• Russian Strikes Cause Power Outages for More than 600,000 in Ukraine, including over 500,000 in Kyiv itself, following missile and unmanned aerial system (UAS) strikes on energy infrastructure.
  
  [29 November 2025] – link
• Hong Kong officials say unsafe netting contributed to a deadly building fire, with investigators finding seven failed safety standards, suggesting contractors intentionally skimped to increase profits.
  
  [Dec 1] – link

Crime or Organized Crime 🔪

• Plea deal for drug kingpin El Chapo’s son details the abduction of a cartel boss, revealing that Sinaloa cartel leader Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was ambushed, drugged, and flown to the U.S. in July 2024.
  
  [July 2024] – link
• Five South Africans are in court over the alleged recruitment of 17 South Africans who were tricked onto the frontlines of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
  
  [now] – link

Activism Terrorism 🪧

• Climate Activists Stop Three Ships from Entering World’s Largest Coal Port in Newcastle, Australia, as part of the Rising Tide protest, which began on November 27 and resulted in 141 arrests by November 30.
  
  [30 November 2025] – link

Geopolitical 🌍

• Russian President Putin says Russia is not seeking war but is ‘ready’ if Europe ‘wants to fight,’ comments which appeared aimed at driving a wedge between Washington and European capitals.
  
  [now] – link
• Jared Kushner and special envoy Steve Witkoff are in Moscow for talks with Vladimir Putin to discuss the war in Ukraine.
  
  [Tuesday] – link
• The US administration said on 29 November 2025, that Venezuela’s airspace should be considered “closed in its entirety” to all airlines, pilots, drug dealers, and human traffickers, as military action against the South American nation is weighed.
  
  [29 November 2025] – link
• China’s defense ministry warned that Japan will have to pay a “painful price” if it steps out of line over Taiwan, responding to Japanese plans to deploy missiles near Taiwan’s coast.
  
  [27 November 2025] – link
• Ukrainian naval unmanned aerial systems (UASs) hit two oil tankers from Russia’s “shadow fleet,” the *Kairos* and *Virat*, off the Turkish coast on 28 and 29 November 2025, in an escalation targeting Russia’s oil revenues.
  
  [28 November 2025] – link
• President Trump tells Honduras ‘there will be hell to pay’ as the presidential vote count stalls.
  
  [now] – link
• Moldovan authorities said Russian UASs had entered the country’s airspace again on 29 November 2025, posing a threat to aviation, marking the third such incident in nine days.
  
  [29 November 2025] – link
• Israeli settlers attack and rob Italian and Canadian volunteers in the West Bank.
  
  [now] – link

Cyber 💻

• A 44-year-old Australian man was sentenced to seven years and four months in prison for operating an “evil twin” WiFi network using a “WiFi Pineapple” device to steal social media credentials and private images from travelers during domestic flights and at various Australian airports.
  
  [Charged July 2024] – link