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OSINT Intelligence Briefing - February 10, 2026

OSINT Intelligence Briefing

OSINT INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING

Daily Strategic Intelligence Report
Stay Informed. Stay Ahead.
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Produced by: SirRFB
AI Models Used: Claude (Anthropic) & GPT (OpenAI)

Executive Summary

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Top Articles
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Active Sources
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Categories
Category Breakdown:
🌍Geopolitics: 5 articles
🕵️Espionage: 5 articles
👁️Surveillance Technology & Privacy: 2 articles
🔒Cybersecurity: 5 articles
🤖Artificial Intelligence: 5 articles
📰Other: 5 articles
Articles ranked by recency, relevance, and source authority
Some sources unavailable: The Record
🌍Geopolitics5

Morning news brief

Immigration officials testify before House as DHS funding deadline looms, Britain's prime minister faces calls to resign over ex-ambassador's Epstein tire, Savannah Guthrie pleads for mother's return.

Source: NPR Read Full Report

Progressive Democrats seek to ‘annul’ Trump Doctrine

A group of progressive Democrats on Tuesday introduced a resolution to “leave the Monroe Doctrine to the dustbin of history,” in the words of Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.), and replace it with a forei...

Source: The Hill Read Full Report

Trump threatens to block new bridge in latest tirade against Canada

President says Gordie Howe Bridge will open only when US is ‘fully compensated’ – and makes bizarre hockey claimAs Democrats prepare to force a vote in the US House this week on Donald Trump’s tariffs...

Source: The Guardian World Read Full Report

US says two people killed in military strike on boat in Pacific

Officials say rescuers searching for lone survivor after latest attack on what Pentagon says are suspected drug smugglersThe US military’s Southern Command, which oversee operations in Latin America a...

Source: The Guardian World Read Full Report

Cuba warns of aviation fuel shortage after Trump tariff threat

Cuba warned of an aircraft fuel shortage amid tensions with the U.S., according to a new report. According to a Sunday report from Spanish news outlet EFE, two sources told the outlet that the Cuban g...

Source: The Hill Read Full Report
🕵️Espionage5

Russian Authorities Launch More Repression Against Dissidents

Executive Summary: According to the legal defense project “First Department,” 2025 broke the record for the number of treason and espionage cases in Russia. These crimes, under articles 275, 276, 275....

Source: Jamestown Foundation Read Full Report

Former deep-cover spy leads Kremlin’s efforts to woo Indian high-tech sector

A FORMER DEEP COVER Russian intelligence officer, whose cover was blown in 2010 when he was arrested in the United States, is spearheading efforts by the Kremlin to secure investments by India’s techn...

Source: IntelNews Read Full Report

British spy and his Chinese handler used private jet to escape to China, report claims

A BRITISH MAN WANTED by American authorities for spying for China, who disappeared along with his Chinese handler while under house arrest, may have managed to escape to China using a private jet, a r...

Source: IntelNews Read Full Report

Ashraf Marwan: Israel’s ‘Angel’ or Egypt’s Double Agent?

ASHRAF MARWAN, KNOWN AS "the Angel," is regarded as one of the greatest spies in Israeli intelligence history—the man on whom the entire Israeli government relied, and the informant who warned of the ...

Source: IntelNews Read Full Report

Austrian prosecutors charge ex-intelligence officer accused of spying for Russia

PROSECUTORS IN VIENNA HAVE charged a former intelligence officer with spying for Russia in a high-profile case that has had broad political ramifications in Austria and beyond.

Source: IntelNews Read Full Report
👁️Surveillance Technology & Privacy2

How the United States Lost a Nuclear Device and Recovered an Indian Friend

It started at a Washington cocktail party, when an Air Force general listened to a mountaineer describe the view from Mount Everest — and decided the United States should put a surveillance device on ...

Source: War on the Rocks Read Full Report

Ransomware Groups May Pivot Back to Encryption as Data Theft Tactics Falter

As only data exfiltration for extortion no longer delivers ROI, ransomware gangs may increasingly encrypting data for additional leverage. The post Ransomware Groups May Pivot Back to Encryption as Da...

Source: Security Week Read Full Report
🔒Cybersecurity5

Why Missile Defense Now Raises the Risk of War

The delusion of invulnerability tempts leaders to take risks.

Source: Foreign Policy Read Full Report

LLMs are Getting a Lot Better and Faster at Finding and Exploiting Zero-Days

This is amazing: Opus 4.6 is notably better at finding high-severity vulnerabilities than previous models and a sign of how quickly things are moving. Security teams have been automating vulnerability...

Source: Schneier on Security Read Full Report

Warlock Gang Breaches SmarterTools Via SmarterMail Bugs

The ransomware group breached SmarterTools through a vulnerability in the company's own SmarterMail product.

Source: Dark Reading Read Full Report

Ransomware group breached SmarterTools via flaw in its SmarterMail deployment

SmarterTools, the company behind the popular Microsoft Exchange alternative SmarterMail, has been breached by a ransomware-wielding group that leveraged a recently fixed vulnerability in that solution...

Source: Help Net Security Read Full Report

TeamPCP Turns Cloud Infrastructure into Crime Bots

The threat actor has been compromising cloud environments at scale with automated worm-like attacks on exposed services and interfaces.

Source: Dark Reading Read Full Report
🤖Artificial Intelligence5

How the use of AI and 'deepfakes' play a role in the search for Nancy Guthrie

As artificial intelligence becomes more advanced and commonplace, it can be difficult to know what's real and what's not, which has complicated the search for Nancy Guthrie, according to law enforceme...

Source: NPR Read Full Report

OpenAI and Anthropic are picking public fights

AI CEOs are openly trash-talking each other, sniping over advertising and their philosophical approaches to the future.Why it matters: The squabbling is intensifying as the cost of staying competitive...

Source: Axios Read Full Report

Say goodbye to free ChatGPT with no ads

ChatGPT is testing ads for some U.S. users on both the free and Go subscription tiers, its most affordable offerings. Why it matters: It could be the beginning of the end of ad-free ChatGPT.What the...

Source: Axios Read Full Report

Biodefense Blind Spot: Why Washington Confuses Pandemics with Bioweapons

The next great biological threat may not begin in a wet market, a jungle, or a laboratory accident. It may begin on a laptop with a commercially available AI model.In October 2025, AI researchers from...

Source: War on the Rocks Read Full Report

Anthropic’s DXT poses “critical RCE vulnerability” by running with full system privileges

When LayerX Security published a report on Monday describing what it called “a critical zero-click RCE vulnerability in [Anthropic’s] Claude Desktop Extensions (DXT) that allows a malicious Google Cal...

Source: CSO Online Read Full Report
📰Other5

Keir Starmer Lived, and Will Die, by Narcissism

The Labour Party’s decades of backbiting and pettiness have collapsed on it.

Source: Foreign Policy Read Full Report

Instagram and YouTube owners built 'addiction machines', trial hears

The tech giants are under scrutiny over social media addiction in a landmark jury trial in Los Angeles

Source: BBC News Technology Read Full Report

Ukrainian Olympics star banned from wearing helmet tribute to war dead

Ukraine’s Winter Olympics flagbearer has accused the International Olympic Committee of betrayal after he was banned from wearing a helmet honoring athletes from his country who were killed during the...

Source: NBC News Read Full Report

Chloe Kim responds after Trump rips teammate Hunter Hess

Chloe Kim responds after Trump rips teammate Hunter Hess

Source: NBC News Read Full Report

U.S. women's hockey team defeated Switzerland 5-0

U.S. women's hockey team defeated Switzerland 5-0

Source: NBC News Read Full Report
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Daily Strategic Intelligence Report
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