Faith-Based Security Headlines
These updates are shared to help raise the situational awareness of Faith-Based organizations to best defend against and mitigate the impacts from all-hazards threats including physical security, cybersecurity, and natural disasters.
Terrorgram’s Propaganda – An Overview of Publications Designed to Incite Accelerationist Terrorism Attacks
The Accelerationist Research Consortium states:
This article provides an overview of the propaganda authored and disseminated by the Terrorgram community, a “loosely connected network of Telegram channels and accounts that adhere to and promote militant accelerationism”. Between June 2021 and October 2022, four officially designated Terrorgram publications and another product similar in style and content were released on different Telegram channels. The overall communicative function of the publications is to incite lone-actor terrorism attacks, serious physical harm and other types of violent criminal activities against a diverse range of soft and hard targets. Individuals are called to action and encouraged to mobilize to violence through three core means:
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- Ideological justifications in which conspiracy narratives of white genocide, the great replacement, and other white supremacist theories are used to construct the militant accelerationist worldview.
- Instructional guidance on preferred tactics, techniques, procedures (TTP) and targets for imitators, including the use of firearms and explosives and live-streaming of attacks.
- Glorifying and lionizing far-right terrorists through the promotion of “saints culture,” which appoints perpetrators as heroes or martyrs on Terrorgram.
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- ‘The Most Dangerous Threat Environment That I’ve Seen in 40 Years’
- Why the Pentagon Is Warning That ISIS Attacks Could Double This Year
- US says ISIL trying ‘to reconstitute’ amid uptick in Syria, Iraq attacks
- Assassination plots, US threats, space nukes
Analyst Comments:
The elevated threat environment continues or may be even higher. Faith-Based Organizations should consider maintaining their vigilance or raising it.
Weekly Security Sprint EP 73. The importance of venue security – the assassination attempt, and Copa crisis
The Gate 15 Security Sprint is a weekly rundown of the week’s notable all-hazards security news, risks and threats and some of the key focus areas for organizations to consider behind the headlines. Gate 15 team members discuss physical security, cybersecurity, natural hazards, health threats and other issues across our environment.
On this week’s Security Sprint, Dave and Andy discuss:
- Donald Trump Assassination Attempt
- Copa America final kick-off delayed after fans struggle to enter stadium in Miami
Other topics:
- FB-ISAO Threat Assessment Statement: Threat Levels Remain at Elevated – July 2024
- FB-ISAO Updates! FB-ISAO Newsletter, v6, Issue 7
- The FB-ISAO FireArms in the House Series: What Did We Learn?
- Is Cybersecurity Part of Your Travel Checklist?
- SPOTLIGHT: Transnational Repression, Page 2
- WaterISAC Surpasses 600 Members, Strengthening Water and Wastewater Security Nationwide
- Critical infrastructure organizations want CISA to dial back cyber reporting
- Real Estate Coalition Raises Concerns Over Cyber Reporting Requirements
- Briefing 23: Space Sector at Risk as Ransomware Groups and Nation State Actors Collaborate
- Guarding Health: Errol Weiss on Protecting the Healthcare Sector from Cyber Threats
The above Gate 15 Weekly Security Sprint website also provides links to many security-related items of interest.
Information on other Gate 15 podcasts can be found at Podcasts (gate15.global).
Updates on Attempted Assassination of Former President Donald Trump
- Improvised Bombs Found in Gunman’s Car at Trump Rally Used a Radio-Control System
- Gunman’s Phone Had Details About Both Trump and Biden, F.B.I. Officials Say
- WPXI exclusive photos show cell phone, transmitter found next to Trump shooter’s body
- Trump gunman seen as threat before attack but was lost in crowd
- How Trump’s Security Failed to Stop an Assassination Attempt
- Russia and China pounce on Trump rally shooting to undermine U.S.
- ‘One screen, two movies’: Conflicting conspiracy theories emerge from Trump shooting
- Chairman Green Requests Public Testimony From State and Local Law Enforcement Officials on Trump Assassination Attempt
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More Faith-Based Storie
NY: Presbyterian church fire in Broadalbin deemed suspicious and Deputies seeking information after Broadalbin church fire
MN: Burglaries, vandalism at Islamic center in St. Anthony under investigation
‘Nashville has a Nazi problem’: Jews face two weeks of neo-Nazi invasion and Neo-Nazi group demonstrates on Tennessee overpass
CAIR-NY Welcomes Hate Crime Charge for Ramming Attack on Muslim Men in Suffolk County (occurred 27 June)
Jewish Employees, Patients Detail Anti-Jewish Environment at Large Bay-Area Research Hospital
UK: Council criticised by regulator over cyber attack Files accessed by the criminals included information about religious beliefs.
Cybercrime threats escalate in Africa and beyond, churches among those at risk
French church’s best-known humanitarian accused of sexual assault
Select All-Hazards Stories
NCITE Publishes New Research on Combating Terrorist Use of Explosives
Tennessee Man Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS (convicted in 2023)
Washington State Man Faces Federal Charges for Damaging Two Portland Area Energy Facilities (occurred in 2022)
A fire kills eight at a shopping mall in southwestern China
French security services arrest far-right extremist over suspected Paris Olympics plot
Bangladesh shuts universities, colleges indefinitely after protests turn deadly
Terrorism Trends in Southeast Asia
CISA: Infrastructure Resilience Planning Framework (IRPF) and Infrastructure Resilience Planning Framework Fact Sheet
Areas of Excessive Rainfall Today; Dangerous Heat Redeveloping Over the Southwest; Dry Thunderstorms in the Great Basin National Weather Service
More than 300 suspected heat-related deaths under investigation in Phoenix area
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