By a Biometrica staffer Terror actors are continuing to exploit online forums to influence and spread violent extremist narratives and promote violent activity, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a terror threat bulletin on Wednesday, Nov. 10. These threats are...
By a Biometrica staffer Halloween 2017 turned out to be one the city of New York will never forget. At some point before 3 p.m. on the day, Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov took the white Home Depot pickup truck he had rented in...
By Deepti Govind We set the stage in a piece published about two weeks ago, on examining the kind of threats surface transportation around the world has faced from terror actors over time. To quickly recap what we said then: While the...
By Deepti Govind Transportation is known to be a "coveted" target among terror actors worldwide, even though certain modes have become increasingly — and thankfully — extremely hard targets to crack. Aviation, of course, is the first mode of transport that comes...
By Deepti Govind When one talks of a terror attack, people are most likely to conjure up images of a group of masked assailants, with some kind of weaponry, hijacking a plane. That’s the lasting effect that images and videos of the...
By Aara Ramesh Earlier this week, on Sept. 7, erstwhile FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe cautioned D.C. law enforcement to be on the alert ahead of the Sept. 18 "Justice for J6" rally planned in support of the rioters charged for the...
By Deepti Govind In the last two decades since 9/11, terror groups, mostly acting through either lone actors or small groups of around 2-3 people, have staged attacks just about anywhere and everywhere in the United States. Aviation, of course, is the...
By Aara Ramesh In and among the 2,996 people who died at the World Trade Center (WTC) on September 11, 2001, were 343 firefighters and paramedics, 23 New York City police officers, and 37 Port Authority police officers. They were just a...
By a Biometrica staffer Two weeks ago, Europol published its third annual report on Online Jihadist Propaganda. One of the key findings of that report was that 2020 was a critical moment in the evolution of Islamic State and Al Qaeda and...
By a Biometrica staffer This time last week, we established that yes, terror groups were very much active during 2020, even when much of the world was closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, as the Europol Terrorism Situation and Trend Report 2021...
By Deepti Govind Despite the Covid-19 pandemic leading to travel bans and restrictions world over in 2020, a new Europol report shows that in the European Union (EU), at least, terrorists were still very much active during the year. Like the rest...
By a Biometrica staffer January 28, 2021 A Texas man pled guilty to conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq, at a hearing in San Antonio on Jan. 25. Jaylyn Christopher Molina, aka Abdur Rahim of Cost, was plotting attacks...
Two of the 'ISIS Beatles' are expected to arrive in the US today to face federal charges over jailing, torturing and beheading American hostages. By a Biometrica staffer Two notorious Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) militant detainees from Britain are...
By a Biometrica staffer Two US citizens have been charged for providing material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization. They were detained by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and had recently been transferred...
By a Biometrica staffer A teenager was accused of issuing a bomb threat online, while interrupting a virtual lecture conducted by the University of Houston that he wasn’t supposed to have access to. The 19-year old Houston resident also allegedly proclaimed his...
By a Biometrica staffer A young woman from Minneapolis pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization (al-Qa’ida). The 22-year old, Tnuza Jamal Hassan, entered her guilty plea on Wednesday before Judge Patrick J. Schiltz at...