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Fishing Trawlers, Not Sabotage, Behind Most Undersea Cable Damage: UN
The UN says fishing trawlers are causing the most damage to undersea cables in the Baltic Sea, rather than spies and sabotage.
Staff Writer With AFP
Timeline descending order
2025
- Baltic Cable Incidents, Jan 26, 2025
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/baltic-undersea-cable-damaged-by-external-influence-sunday-latvian-broadcaster-2025-01-26/
https://x.com/DougMadory/status/1883522300672381289
2 Ships currently under investigation, Jan 26, 2025
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1883635929937850661 - Syria, Fiber Cables cut, Jan 2025
https://x.com/DougMadory/status/1882778910540386487 - Taiwan, 2 x Underseacable had been cut, Jan 2025
https://x.com/WilliamYang120/status/1881905746876752283
2024
Baltic under sea cable incidents
- Baltic Underseacable Incident (Power Cable), Dec 2024
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1871980005393342748
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1871996691563581678
Reports of multiple simultaneous events (4-5 cables affected) emerged
https://x.com/SwitHak/status/1872402394027561067
a ship has been boarded by finnish bortder partol forces
https://x.com/MikkoIsotalo/status/1872356985318056136 - Baltic Underseacable Incident (Data Cable) by Chinese Vessel, Nov 2024
(not yet 100% confirmed, bot strong indications of a malicious act)
https://x.com/GermanyDiplo/status/1858569587144409198
https://x.com/WarMonitor3/status/1858880510275002504
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1859132263746744367
Analysis of the impact by CF https://blog.cloudflare.com/resilient-internet-connectivity-baltic-cable-cuts/
misc in 2024
- danish railway traffic disrupted, Nov 2024
(not confirmed to be a cyber incident)
https://cphpost.dk/2024-11-28/news/round-up/train-traffic-disrupted-across-jutland/
https://www.thelocal.dk/20241129/danish-rail-services-to-be-disrupted-by-signal-faults-throughout-weekend - Germany/Berlin, Subway and S-Bahn had been shut down due to an attack on the infrastructure
https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2024/08/berlin-brand-feuer-brandstiftung-ringbahn-polizei-beusselstrasse-vandalismus.html
during the 2024 olympics in france, multiple attacks on infrastructure
- Saboteurs Cut Internet Cables in Latest Disruption During Paris Olympics https://www.wired.com/story/saboteurs-cut-internet-cables-in-latest-disruption-during-paris-olympics/ (prior art from 2022: https://x.com/WIRED/status/1550482808384225286)
- French SNCF high-speed trains (TGV) railways have been targeted by coordinated physical attacks https://x.com/SwitHak/status/1816732722666061949
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1817850952654655576 - Power Blackout in Paris during Olympics
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1817330353448857932 - communications on a French Airport interrupted by a Jammer
https://x.com/anfr/status/1830232892242301242
2023
- Baltic underseacable and gaspipelines damaged, Oct 2023
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/swedish-govt-says-estonia-has-linked-baltic-cable-pipeline-damages-2023-10-23/ - Polish railway cyberattack by sending a "Radio Stop" - Signal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_railway_cyberattack#:~:text=The%20Polish%20railway%20cyberattack%20is,at%20the%20Polish%20State%20Railways.
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