A spate of sabotage attacks on underwater cables, allegedly perpetrated by a Russian "shadow fleet," have shown global telecommunications infrastructure is poorly protected against deliberate acts of ...

More than 97% of global internet traffic travels under the sea, via submarine cables . They are capable of carrying far more ...

When people think about fiber optic cables, it's usually about how they're used for telecommunications and accessing the ...

The majority of critical undersea infrastructure is located in international waters, which means would-be saboteurs can take ...

Authorities in Sweden and Latvia are investigating potential sabotage after an undersea fiber-optic cable between the two countries was damaged in late January 2025. The incident is the latest in ...

Tromso police say they seized and then released a vessel sailing between two Russian ports. Swedish and Latvian investigators are looking into the severing of an underwater cable under the Baltic Sea.

Police in Norway said Friday they had released a Russian-crewed cargo ship seized over suspected involvement in damage to a ...

The Norwegian-flagged Silver Dania operated by a crew of 11 Russians was seized in Norway’s economic zone at the request of Latvia ...

Norwegian police announced today that a Norwegian-flagged vessel has been detained in Tromso under suspicion of being ...

Europes undersea infrastructure faces increasing disruptions, with gas pipelines, power lines, and data cables under threat.

The last British submarine known to have severed a cable was HMS Conqueror in 1982. Fresh from firing the torpedoes that sank ...

Incidents damaging Europe’s undersea networks have become more frequent since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, raising suspicions they are the result of sabotage.