Russian boats spotted loitering over undersea cables connecting Europe and US
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Deliberate mapping of undersea cables—500+ incidents in under five years—turns global internet and cloud connectivity into a visible geopolitical attack surface. If your operations depend on transatlantic latency or bandwidth, treat cable disruption as a scenario to model, not a black-swan edge case.
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