Mobius report 58/2022 – VBIED with WIFI Smart Switch, Popayán, Colombia
September 12, 2022On July 30, 2022, a VBIED attack was thwarted in the city of Popayán, capital of Cauca department, in western Colombia. The main charge explosive of the neutralized VBIED comprised two large gas cylinders filled with commercial explosives and an...
Mobius 57/2022 – Production and Modification of Payload Release Systems for UAVs, Ukraine
September 12, 2022Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, documentation has been published of Ukrainian entrepreneurs and engineers from three different cities using their skills to help produce UAV payload release systems, as well as to convert commercial UAVs...
Hydra – India: Controversial Remarks about the Prophet Result in Threats and Attacks
August 9, 2022Controversial remarks about the Prophet Muhammad by two Indian politicians provoked a Global Jihadi propaganda campaign by AQ and IS to avenge the Prophet. Two terror attacks were conducted against Indian targets: an organized raid-suicide attack by ISKP at a...
TGA0701 Unique Anti-Personnel IED Configurations Documented in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine
August 6, 2022On July 19, 2022, Russian mass media sources posted a video report, showing a workshop of Ukrainian forces, located in Lysychansk (Luhansk Oblast.) In the video, a soldier from the Ahmad Battalion (a special unit, part of the troops of...
TGA0700 ISCAP Booby-Trapped Corpse Neutralized, DRC
August 6, 2022In early February 2022, security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo neutralized a booby-trapped corpse placed by militants of the Islamic State’s Central Africa Province on the side of a road near the village of Mukoko, north of the...
TGA0699 ZALA Lancet-3 Loitering Munition in Ukraine
August 6, 2022In mid-July 2022, Russia’s ZALA Lancet-3 was documented in Zaporizhzhia and the Yavkovo area, in Ukraine. The Lancet is the second type of Russian loitering munition to be documented in Ukraine, along with the ZALA KUB. Before the Russian invasion...
TGA0698 – Assassination of Former Japanese Prime Minister, Nara, Japan
August 6, 2022On July 8, 2022, the former prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, was assassinated by a lone wolf assailant, Tetsuya Yamagami, with an improvised dual barrel gun (sometimes referred to as a Zip Gun.) The weapon appears to have been...
Mobius report 56/2022 – UAVs Weaponized with Heavy Payloads, Kayin State, Myanmar
August 6, 2022Since April 2022, and particularly during May, June and July, several armed militias operating in Kayin State, in southeastern Myanmar, have been documenting their use of drones modified to carry a heavy explosive payload consisting of one or more rounds...
Mobius report 55/2022 – ISKP Cell Arrested by the GDI, Afghanistan
August 6, 2022On July 24, 2022, the General Directorate of Intelligence of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan arrested a four-member terrorist cell of the Islamic State – Khurasan Province. The group confessed to involvement in past attacks and a large cache of...
