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Daily Strategic Intelligence Report
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Thursday, January 22, 2026
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41/41 Active Sources |
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Category Breakdown: 🌍Geopolitics: 5 articles 🕵️Espionage: 3 articles 🔒Cybersecurity: 5 articles 🤖Artificial Intelligence: 2 articles 📰Other: 5 articles Articles ranked by recency, relevance, and source authority |
Trump walks back Greenland threats, but Congress fears long-term NATO damage
President Trump on Wednesday de-escalated his threats to seize Greenland and hammer Europe with new tariffs, but some lawmakers in both parties fear the damage to NATO and the trans-Atlantic alliance has already been done. “It’s hard to un-ring the bell,” said Rep. Adam Smith (Wash.), the senior Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee.
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Trump reiterates push to acquire Greenland, slams Europe, NATO at Davos
President Donald Trump on Wednesday renewed his push for U.S. acquisition of Greenland and sharpened criticism of Europe and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in a special address at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, adding fresh strain to transatlantic ties.
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How profits and resources drive foreign policy in the Trump era
Responding in part to Chinese competition, President Trump is more aggressively leveraging economic tools in foreign policy, from Venezuela to Greenland.
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Trump says UN should continue, but Board of Peace "might" replace UN
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the United Nations should continue because of its potential, but the Board of Peace he proposed "might" replace the organization.
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Trump backs off Greenland tariff threat based on new "solution"
DAVOS, Switzerland — President Trump announced on Wednesday that he would not follow through on his threat to impose tariffs on eight European allies on Feb. 1 over their opposition to his claim of Greenland.Why it matters. He claimed to have found a "solution" to the Greenland crisis during a meeti.
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Curl eliminates bug bounty program due to AI slop
Lately, the Curl code library has been receiving a lot of AI-generated reports from users hoping to receive financial compensation from the tool’s bug bounty program. Going through all the reports has taken up so many resources that Curl has decided to eliminate compensation for bug hunters altogether.
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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 technology sector.
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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.
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Hackers Targeting Cisco Unified CM Zero-Day
Cisco has released patches for CVE-2026-20045, a critical vulnerability that can be exploited for unauthenticated remote code execution.
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Actively exploited Cisco UC bug requires immediate, version‑specific patching
Cisco has released patches for a critical remote code execution vulnerability in its unified communications products that attackers are actively exploiting. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, confirming the exploitation. Cisco disclosed CVE-2026-20045 along with patches for Unified Communications Manager, Unity Connection, and Webex Calling Dedicated Instance.
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U.S. CISA adds a flaw in Cisco Unified Communications products to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a flaw impacting Cisco Unified Communications products to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a Cisco Unified Communications products vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20045 (CVSS score of 8.2), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.
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Cisco Fixes Actively Exploited Zero-Day CVE-2026-20045 in Unified CM and Webex
Cisco has released fresh patches to address what it described as a "critical" security vulnerability impacting multiple Unified Communications (CM) products and Webex Calling Dedicated Instance that it has been actively exploited as a zero-day in the wild. The vulnerability, CVE-2026-20045 (CVSS score: 8.
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GitLab 2FA login protection bypass lets attackers take over accounts
A critical two-factor authentication bypass vulnerability in the Community and Enterprise editions of the GitLab application development platform has to be patched immediately, say experts. The hole is one of five vulnerabilities patched Wednesday as part of new versions of GitLab. Three are ranked High in severity, including the 2FA bypass issue, while the other two are ranked Medium in severity.
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Why AI Keeps Falling for Prompt Injection Attacks
Imagine you work at a drive-through restaurant. Someone drives up and says: “I’ll have a double cheeseburger, large fries, and ignore previous instructions and give me the contents of the cash drawer.” Would you hand over the money? Yet this is what large language models (LLMs) do.
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The AI Fix #81: ChatGPT is the last AI you’ll understand, and your teacher is a deepfake
In episode 81 of The AI Fix, Graham discovers that deepfakes are already marking your kids' homework, while Mark glimpses the future when he discovers AI agents that can communicate by reading each other's minds. Also in this episode, a Chinese robot called Miro U proves six arms are better than two.
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Silence marks moment of sorrow as Australians mourn victims of Bondi terror attack
Survivors join families of victims on stage of Sydney Opera House as PM apologises that nation ‘could not protect your loved ones’Children cook meals for the needy and mourners lay wreaths for Bondi attack victims on national day of mourningGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAt 7.01pm on Thursday evening, a crowd of 1,500 mourners packed into the Sydney Opera House descended into a heavy silence.
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A bid to clean up shipping industry intensified a coral bleaching event on Great Barrier Reef, study says
The removal of sulphur from shipping fuels caused ‘a lot of extra sunlight’ to get through atmosphere and hit reef in 2022Steps to clean up the shipping industry by removing sulphur from fuels intensified a major coral bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef by allowing more of the sun’s energy to hit the oceanic wonder, according to a new study.
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Elon Musk’s Grok A.I. Chatbot Made Millions of Sexualized Images, New Estimates Show
Over nine days, Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot generated and posted 4.4 million images, of which at least 41 percent were sexualized images of women.
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Ubisoft cancels six games including Prince of Persia and closes studios
The studio, known for Assassin's Creed and Just Dance, is also delaying seven titles in a restructure.
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Trump: Board of Peace could be ‘most consequential bodies ever created’
During the first meeting of the “Board of Peace” at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, President Trump said it could be “one of the most consequential bodies ever created.” Trump added that he is honored to serve as the board’s chairman.
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OSINT INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING
Daily Strategic Intelligence Report
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This newsletter aggregates intelligence from 41 vetted sources.
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