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  1. Jan 2026
    1. The other one that happened was just before Russia invaded Ukraine, they managed to disable the Viasat modems. And this is an interesting case. These modems are used for satellite communications. And they were able to attack these modems so that they physically disabled themselves. It was not like the denial of service attack on the network. No, they managed to wipe the firmware of all these modems in such a way that it could not be replaced. The reason we know about this stuff so well is it turns out there were lots of windmills that also had these modems. In Germany, apparently 4,000 of these modems stopped working. And there were 4,000 wind turbines that could no longer be operated. So this was a military cyber attack that happened as Russia was invading Ukraine. And it was of great benefit to them because it disabled a lot of military communications in Ukraine. But this is the kind of thing that can happen, only that it’s quite rare.

      Russia compromised Viasat modems before the Feb2022 invasion, to disrupt Ukraine's satcoms for the military. However these modems are also used in German windparks, losing control over 4000 windmills.

    1. Berlin Senate sees open data as a cause for the (potential hybrid) attack on the Berlin power grid. Frag den Staat team says Senate is trying to wash its hands of resp after decades of under-investing in power infrastructure and its resilience. I see a general trend towards obscuring more data that has been part of open data for a decade or more. Btw the Dutch subsoil cable data is not public, the power networks (like in Germany) are published by the network government owned enterprises. In part this is bc of the HVD regulation. The next round of HVD, and the DS for Energy will likely require this data to be generally available too. Data spaces are a way to deal with access with nuance and granularity but open data is the actual legal default EU wide. So it must be legally explained if something is not open.

    1. Original 'Vulcan group' (2011) says they're not the ones who sent a letter taking resp for the Sept and Dec 2025 arson attacks on Berlin energy infra. Prev saw an analysis by a linguist that the December letter wasn't written by native speakers, but seemed translated (not saying what from)

    1. The ship was sailing under the flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, with a crew which includes citizens of Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan.

      Ship sailing under convenience flag St Vincent & Grenadines, crew all from CIS, even from landlocked countries.

    2. Finnish police have formally arrested two crew members of the Fitburg, a cargo ship suspected of breaking a data cable between Finland and Estonia on New Year’s Eve. Two other crew members have been placed under travel bans.

      The ship involved was the 'Fitburg' cargo ship.

  2. Dec 2025
    1. digitale veiligheid in 4 aandachtsgebieden voor gemeenten: de interne digitale veiligheid; ontwrichting binnen gemeentegrenzen als gevolg van een cyberincident; cybercrime en gedigitaliseerde criminaliteit; online aangejaagde openbare-ordeverstoringen.

      Vraagstukken gegroepeerd in deze 4 clusters. Waar zou hybride aanval tbv staatsactor vallen? Cluster 1?