Four Undersea Cables Cut In Middle East In Less Than a Week
As many of you may have heard, two undersea cables were cut on January 31st severing internet to millions of users in the middle east. At first it was reported that these cables were severed by a ship’s anchor, but it is now being confirmed that this is false. The map of undersea cables and those affected can be found here.
However, in the last few days, two more cables have been cut. An illuminating internet traffic report is here.
The probability of all of these events being random accidents seems vanishingly small. Could this be a new sort of attack intended to black out an entire region? If so – what could the motivations be and who could be behind this? Could this be done for commercial reasons? Could this be a government or terrorist organization about to mount an attack?
Some other enlightening posts can be found here: part I, part II, part III