German authorities have issued a NOTAM for a military evaluation targeting seabed infrastructure security dubbed SeaSEC 2026 in the Baltic Sea off Warnemuende/Rostock which involves numerous uncrewed systems, across UAV/USV/UUV domains. www.bundeswehr.de/de/organisat...
UK MoD says Russian subs surveying subsea cables were deterred by UK naval forces.
Good to see active monitoring and signaling.
But calling it successful deterrence after a month-long operation feels like a stretch. Time matters survey ops.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
New paper: @ptrckflmm.bsky.social (@prif.org), Christian Reuter (@peasec.de) and myself teamed up to analyze technological challenges alongside geopolitical implications of connecting Antarctica 🇦🇶 with other territories (🇳🇿, 🇨🇱) through subsea data cables.
Open access here: doi.org/10.1016/j.te...
Geopolitical instability increasingly impacts cable build-up:
"Meta consortium pauses 2Africa Pearls cable work amid Iran‑linked conflict"
capacityglobal.com/news/meta-co...
Satellite Images reveal Russian undersea cables in Crimea. Highly unusual to see these.
Here -> www.hisutton.com/OSINT-Unders...
#OSINT #Ukraine
The current Internet shutdown in Iran is in its 7th day.
A small amount of traffic continues to trickle out of Iran for whitelisted individuals and services, for everyone else, almost no connectivity whatsoever.
#IranWar #DigitalBlackoutlran
Two AWS facilities in the United Arab Emirates were directly struck by drones, causing structural damage, fires, power outages, and water damage from fire suppression systems. In Bahrain, a drone strike in close proximity to one facility caused physical impacts to infrastructure, taking it offline.
Latest photos of the sanctioned Russian LNG tanker Arctic Metagaz in Mediterranean, after being hit by USVs (surface drones). Still floating but a complete loss for Russia.
🇺🇸 Visa sanctions due to subsea cable proposal "with links to China": What might seem as “a calibrated warning” in broader scale, can have disruptive effects for the SDC industry.
🗞️Why Chile 🇨🇱 is the latest LATAM country to be caught in a U.S.-China power struggle(CNCB) www.cnbc.com/2026/02/25/c...
AWS said objects struck one of its data centers in the UAE, impacting its mec1-az2 availability zone, and that connectivity will take several hours to restore (Reuters)
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Good to see that there is *finally* some movement on this!
“Neutral Ireland is seeking closer co-operation with the UK and other Nato countries to defend its vast maritime area as Russia intensifies its surveillance of vulnerable undersea cables that criss-cross Irish waters.”
Coming out this October:
www.thebookseller.com/rights/basic...
UK has acted against Russian freighter SINEGORSK on suspicions of cable sabotage.
Royal Navy chased her away after she anchored close to several cross-Atlantic communication cables.
"Finland steps up undersea monitoring to prevent cable damage after string of sabotage incidents" (Euronews)
www.euronews.com/2026/01/26/f...
The background to the talks is the ongoing threats posed by Russia, such as cyberattacks and the destruction of undersea cables that are attributed to Moscow.“ Tagesschau (German public broadcaster)
Baltic cable security: „Foreign Minister Wadephul speaks in Latvia and Sweden about security in the Baltic Sea region. In Riga, he is meeting today, among others, with President Rinkēvičs, and in Sweden with his counterpart Stenergard.
„Nach Auswertung von Informationen der lettischen Marine soll das Schiff zunächst über ein inaktives Kabel gefahren sein und anschließend seinen Kurs auf das nun beschädigte Kabel geändert haben, teilte die Polizei mit.“
| #Lettland #Ostsee
www.spiegel.de/ausland/osts...
Two marine cable repair vessels en route to the Gulf of Finland - both active in repairs after the cable break epidemic last winter.
⚓️ Interesting legal take on the conundrum of how to prosecute maritime sabotage conducted outside territorial waters - by James Kraska and Elizabeth Hutton (USNWC).
They propose an interpretation of maritime law that grants a coastal state jurisdiction!
🔗 digital-commons.usnwc.edu/ils/vol106/i...
Wohl weltgrößtes Kabelverlegeschiff "Fleeming Jenkin" vom Stapel gelaufen
"Das #Kabelverlegeschiff "Fleeming Jenkin" kann über 28.000 t Unterseekabel aufnehmen. Das neue Schiff soll 2026 den Betrieb in der Nordsee aufnehmen.
Das Schiff verfügt über drei riesige..."
www.heise.de/news/Wohl-we...
PEACE submarine cable suffered an outage yesterday (Oct-20) at 12:30 UTC when "PFE voltage suddenly dropped in Zafarana, Egypt."
When the PEACE cable was lost, Pakistani incumbent @PTCLOfficial lost transit from Lumen (AS3356).
www.submarinecablemap.com/submarine-ca...
Software ist für moderne Streitkräfte unverzichtbar, birgt aber Risiken in den Lieferketten. Um Sicherheit zu gewährleisten, sollten diese konsequent minimiert werden. Mehr dazu in der neuen SWP-Studie von @alexandrapaulus.bsky.social @swp-intsecurity.bsky.social.👇
www.swp-berlin.org/publikation/...
HNLMS Johan de Witt (L801) and a German naval vessel are operating in the Irish Sea tonight, quite close to where Yantar hovered last November.
German SIGINT vessel OKER is further north, in the Firth of Clyde.
AIS flag hopping for the top 200 worst shadow fleet ships, September to October.
The "pivot to The Gambia" of the shadow fleet is increasing day by day.
But also "pivot to Sierra Leone".
Initially, I thought this was "just" another case of false flagging, unbeknown to the registry.
But something in common about both these nations, causes me to think, that it's not the case.
French military personnel have boarded Russian shadow fleet oil tanker named "Boracay". Vessel is suspected of being a launchpad for drones that forced the closure of airports in Denmark last week.
„The consortium was selected on 16 July, 2025 and the project is part of NATO’s Digital Ocean and Antisubmarine Warfare Barrier Smart Defence Initiative. It is sponsored by twelve different nations led by the UK.“
[Subsea Cables Parted in Red Sea Again]
In this post for @kentikinc, I utilize our unique datasets (NetFlow, BGP and latency) to analyze the latest round of submarine cable cuts in the Red Sea affecting internet traffic between Europe and Asia.
www.kentik.com/blog/subsea-...
Submarine cable cuts in the Red Sea disrupt connectivity between Europe and Asia.
Latency spikes as traffic is re-routed around the broken cables. @kentik.bsky.social's Cloud Latency Map captures the impacts here:
clm.kentik.com?q=4084ef2b1d...
If Houthi were intentionally involved, you’re right. Even though, rarely, subsea cable vandalism and theft occurred in the past, sub-state/militia would be a new types of actors.
