Daily Brief, November 11, 2026

Top Story

Russia's Novatek steered the funder of seabed surveys near the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, documents show

Novatek, a liquefied natural gas giant under partial US sanctions, steered the United Arab Emirates company that paid for the sonar and seabed mapping, ProPublica, a US investigative newsroom, reports. Novatek denies gathering intelligence and says Polar Train, the gas project's US arm, and its UAE parent made the survey decisions.

Source: ProPublica

Attacks on Russian Infrastructure

Yandex says 2.84% of data in its cloud cannot be recovered after drone attacks

The affected customers had kept no backups on the platform and equipment was critically damaged, the Russian technology company says. Ukrainian drones damaged three of its data centers in early October, Reuters reports.

Source: CNA

Ukrainian strikes since late October disrupted refineries holding about 30% of Russia's refining capacity

Nine of Russia's 35 major refineries were disrupted, Reuters reported, citing industry sources and officials. Together they can process about 2.2 million barrels a day, against Russia's roughly 6.8 million.

Source: OilPrice

Hackers paralyzed Russia's statistics agency website and leaked alleged war-death data

[RU - The Bell]

Hackers say the leak puts the true number of Russian soldiers killed at between 394,000 and 450,000, depending on method, far above tallies built from named casualties. The Bell, an independent Russian news outlet, says the numbers cannot be verified but there are grounds to believe they are close to the truth.

Source: The Bell

United States

Enforcement & Liability

Five more states join the FTC's privacy suit against telehealth provider Hims and Hers

Hims and Hers shared consumers' health information with Meta, Snap and other advertising platforms while claiming its service keeps that information private, the US Federal Trade Commission's suit alleges.

Source: Federal Trade Commission

Around the World

Supply Chain Risk

Poland's Orlen canceled a Qatari gas contract, saying Qatar could not deliver

Orlen's is the first cancellation by a QatarEnergy customer; QatarEnergy supplied about a fifth of the world's liquefied natural gas before the Iran war, Bloomberg reported. The contract, for a million metric tons a year, was worth an estimated $637 million this year. It stays in force for 60 days after Orlen's notice.

Source: The National

Ebola has killed at least 5,387 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo

The Bundibugyo strain behind the outbreak kills about half the people it infects, and no vaccine or treatment has been developed specifically for it.

Source: Al Jazeera

Also Today

Comments close November 16th on US regulators' plan to replace banks' vendor-risk guidance

Source: Federal Register

The General Services Administration pulled 244 Chinese products from a federal procurement list

Source: Nextgov

Indonesia names four police officers as suspects over alleged wiretapping of the president

Source: Lowy Institute

Malta-flagged tanker Agioi Fanendes, carrying Russian diesel, has halted off the US East Coast

Source: gCaptain

US extends its port-fee suspension on Chinese-built and Chinese-operated ships to January 9th

Source: gCaptain

China's trade surplus reached $1.04 trillion in the first ten months

Source: The Straits Times

FDA orders makers of weight-loss drugs to warn of a rare vision-loss risk

Source: BBC

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