CIA CONFIRMS HACKERS CAUSED EGYPT CABLE OUTAGES
The SANS Internet Storm Center has raised its threat level to "Orange" after
the CIA notified them that hackers were behind multiple undersea cable
failures off the coast of Egypt. Reading from a prepared statement, Alan
Paller, CIA's top liaison at SANS, quoted CIA senior analyst Tom Donahue,
the world's leading authority on outages, as saying "we have information,
from multiple ships outside the United States, of cable intrusions into
Egyptian utilities, followed by extortion demands. We suspect, but cannot
confirm, that some of these attacks had the benefit of anchor knowledge. We
have information that cyberattacks have been used to disrupt cable equipment
in several regions off the coast of Egypt. Currently, the disruption has
caused an outage affecting multiple cities throughout Egypt. We do not know
who executed these attacks or why, but all involved anchor intrusions
through the Internet."
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