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Melilla has been with a total collapse of its computer systems for three days. The cyber attack is there

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Those responsible for the Autonomous City of Melilla indicated last Sunday night that the city’s computer services had been interrupted by technical causes. At the moment the origin of the problem is not known, but a cyber attack is investigated. Although that hypothesis is not confirmed, there is a reality: that Spain is the second most attacked country in the world by cybercriminals. What happened. On Sunday night the City Council of Melilla reported That “due to a technical problem in our computer systems, we inform citizens that, temporarily, it will not be possible to provide services through the OIAC (Information and Citizen Attention Offices).” The cyber attack hypothesis. As they point out In the Melilla lighthousethere is no official confirmation about the origin of the problem, but working on the hypothesis of a cyber attack. In that investigation, the Autonomous City has the support of the National Intelligence Center (CNI), with which maintains a collaboration agreement in cybersecurity. Collapse (almost) total. The fall of computer systems in Melilla has made the usual tasks of the administration cannot be carried out by computer. That has forced them to recover in certain cases Traditional processing methods as the manual firm to process the most urgent files. The Minister of Development, Miguel Marín, explained in statements to the media how “obviously this slows the work.” The municipal website, which allows citizens to be done through the Internet, is also falling. Three organizations are still operational. As they point out In News from Navarraonly three public bodies have been saved from the fall: the municipal housing and land company of Melilla (Emvismesa), the Promise and Immusa Economic Development Society, on which local television depends. There is no date for the recovery of systems. Both Marín and the president of the Autonomous City, Juan José Imbroda, pointed out that the priority is to recover the operation of the services. However, the initial objective of recovering them in two days has not been met, and there is no estimated date for computer systems to work normally again. Denunciation and investigation. Although there is no confirmed cause of the problem, there has been a formal complaint due to the possibility of a possible cyber attack. “The police are alerted,” said Imbroda, “we will try to find out what has really been and where it comes from.” Image | Trevor Huxham In Xataka | Carrefour received five identical cyber attacks and did nothing. Now it has a fine of 3.2 million euros

Not even the greatest US attack has achieved its goal in Iran. Nobody knows where is the great unknown of 400 kg

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After the first hours, and with them the Trump statements That the Iranian nuclear program had been “complete and totally annihilated”, senior US officials have recognized that, in reality, they do not know where the most sensitive Iranian element is, an unknown of 400 kilograms of reserve. A latent bomb. After the overwhelming offensive American Aeria on the main Nuclear facilities From Iran (Fordow, Natanz and Isfahán), the attention of intelligence agencies does not focus solely on craters, but on an invisible but crucial element: the, a priori, just over 400 kg of enriched uranium at 60%, very close to the military threshold, whose whereabouts remains uncertain. As we said, despite the Trump’s proclamations On Iranian nuclear capabilities, experts and officials recognize that the true unknown is whether the material was destroyed, transferred (they have had plenty of time since the conflict broke out) or disseminated in clandestine facilities. The difference between a neutralized nuclear and latent program It depends on the destination of that vital stock. The Shadow of Fordow. He counted In the Financial Times The former American official Richard Nephew, that the destruction of the visible facilities It might not have affected the most sensitive material, stored in dust Inside metal cylinders in deeply excavated tunnels. Fordowbeing hidden under a mountain, would have offered limited but not zero protection. However, there is a growing suspicion that they will move their uranium Before bombingwhich would represent an early strategic play. An informant of the Iranian regime declared that it would have been “very naive” to leave uranium in the attacked sites, and assured that the material It is still intact. Moreover, figures such as the director of the OIEA, Rafael Grossi, They take for granted After reviewing satellite images and logistic movements records near underground tunnels in Fordow, which Iran could have evacuated uranium days before of attacks. Silent withdrawal. Explained The New York Times that those evidence suggest that they will go displaced part of the uranium From Isfahán, its main storage center, towards still unknown sites. Although the centrifuging (key pieces of the enrichment process) could not be evacuated due to their size and complexity, the stored fuel would have been mobile enough as to be extracted in discrete vehicles. Satellite images showed At least 16 trucks Near the accesses to Fordow days before the attack, which reinforces the theory of a preventive evacuation. Natanz’s installation, on the other hand, It was devastated by Israel, which disabled the superficial enrichment center and caused a blackout that probably destroyed the centrifugators. However, Iran had already begun the construction of a deeper underground installation to the south of the city, although it ensures that it still It is not operational. Between deterrence and clandestine activity. Although Iran insists that his program It has civil endsthe partial destruction of its infrastructure and the selective murder of at least eleven nuclear scientists have fed voices within the regime they suggest Check the doctrine nuclear. International analysts fear that the coup catalogs a turn towards hidingwith the installation of new advanced centrifugers and the restart of activities in unstalled facilities. To the big question about those 408 kg of 60%uranium, Iran could in a matter of days refine it until reaching the necessary purity For nuclear weapons (90%) if you have the necessary technical team, although the miniaturization and assembly process would still take months or even a year. Precedents The cases of India, Pakistan and North Korea show that, even under international surveillance, it is possible to build a hidden nuclear capacity. Sima Shine, Mossad’s intelligence formerist, He affirmed in FT Being convinced that Iran has already relocated both their enriched uranium and part of their technical infrastructure, which would allow a quick reload if the political decision is made. In other words: despite the military coup, political will, scientific knowledge and industrial experience remain intact. Collapse of international control. We have counted before. The inspections of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are They have suspended Due to Israeli attacks, which has left a critical void in the verification of the Iranian program. Even before the offensive, Iranian cooperation with the agency had drastically decreasedand Tehran had already secretly built a third unstalled enrichment installation. Israel managed to damage Natanz and Isfahán, but acknowledged that he had no capacity to destroy Fordow without the help of the United States, which contributed His antibunker artillery more powerful inside its B-2. The big doubt. Thus, nobody knows exactly if we are facing an end point or A phase change. The emerging consensus between analysts is that the Iranian nuclear program has not been destroyed, but Your known form. If you survive, It will be transformed: either in a clandestine program aimed at obtaining weapons, or (in case of successful negotiations) in a purely civil version, devoid of the complete fuel cycle. Advisor Ali Shamkhani summed up with coldness: “Although the facilities are destroyed, the game is not over.” The capacities, material and determination are still there. Hence, the real outcome may not depend on visible craters, but on the dust stored in Some hidden place of the Iranian subsoil. And until you know where that uranium is, the “unknown” has only become more difficult to track. Image | Maxar In Xataka | For 125 airplanes and 14 bombs to reach Iran, the US used one of the oldest tactics of war: perfidy In Xataka | Russia recalled a threat that appears in the war between Iran and Israel: the possibility of a nuclear disaster

The US has started evaluating the risks that runs if you attack Iran. What worries you most is a fearsome bomb: yours

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While the United States, in Trump’s figure, leafless the Margarita on a possible intervention American military against Iran, several scenarios open, all uncertain, and a technical, strategic and symbolic obstacle: the difficulty of destroying The ForDow Uranium Enrichment Center, a underground installation excavated deep in a mountain. In fact and, as we will see, Washington’s main concern at this time is a bomb … yours. Weigh the risks. He Financial Times and the Washington Post have published two reports on that moment of Impasse that is lived in the administration. While Trump holds intense meetings in the White House crisis room to decide if the United States joins the Israeli offensive against Iran, US intelligence and defense services draw an exhaustive map of possible reprisals that Tehran could trigger. Among the explicit warnings of the Iranian supreme leader, Ali Jamenei (who has threatened to cause “irreparable damage” if Washington intervenes), and the strategic memory of previous cycles Of climbing, the White House faces a decision that could mark the turning point In the conflict. Iranian response options cover A broad spectrum: Direct attacks against American troops or embassies in the Middle East, cybernetic sabotages, terrorist attacks, undercover actions through allied militias such as Hezbollah or hutis, and, perhaps the most serious from the economic point of view, the Ormuz Strait closurewhere a third of the world’s maritime oil travels. The dilemma of deterrence. The United States currently maintains some 40,000 military troops deployed in the region, with eight permanent bases in countries such as Bahrain, Kuwait, Catar and Arab Emirates, in addition to operational presence in other eleven key enclaves, including Iraq, Syria, Jordan and Oman. The Udeid Air Base in Catar, headquarters of the American central command, houses 10,000 soldiersand other facilities such as the Bahrain Naval Base or the infrastructure in Kuwait house tens of thousands more. Although all have aerial defenses, their geographical proximity with Iran makes them Vulnerable objectives Before a ballistic or cruise missile attack, drones or even irregular command incursions. Iran has a significant arsenal of unmanned projectiles and aerial vehicles, many of them of their own manufacture or adaptations of Russian and North Korean models, and although their response would not be immediate, the internal debate in Tehran about when and how to answer It could be intensified If Washington actively participates in the campaign. The threat of the Strait. He Ormuz narrowneuralgic point of global hydrocarbons trade, represents a Strategic risk first order. Iran has demonstrated in the past (as in 2019when it managed to temporarily paralyze 50% of Saudi production through a combined missile and drone attack) that can seriously affect the world energy market. If you choose to undermine the strait, use fast boats, submarines or coastal batteries to block the passage, the impact on oil prices It would be immediate and global. It happens that they will also It depends on the Strait For its own crude oil exports, which introduces a structural contradiction: damage ormuz would harm both their enemies and itself. Even so, like They point out analysts From the pentagon, deterrence based on mutual vulnerability does not guarantee containment if the survival of the regime is at stake. The precedent of hutis in the red seawhich have managed to interrupt maritime traffic despite weeks of US bombings, demonstrates the effectiveness of sustained asymmetric tactics even under constant military pressure. The mystery of a bomb. And here we reach the main theme from the perspective of the possible attack of the United States. In the heart of deliberations about this possible military intervention against Iran is the difficulty of destroying the center of Uranium enrichment of Fordow, that underground installation excavated deep in a mountain. He counted exclusive The Guardian that Trump has already been informed that the use of the GBU-57 pump could, in theory, Inspore fordow During a limited period of time, but according to sources close to the conversations, the president is not convinced of his effectiveness and has conditioned any authorization to attack the guarantee that the objective can be eliminated definitively. B-52 launching a MOP during the tests, 2009 Reasonable doubt. Doubts feed not only for the tactical complexity of the operation, but also of the evaluation of the Department of Defense: several experts They have warned Not even a GBU-57 pump battery would be enough to completely destroy Fordow, and that only A tactical nuclear weapon I could achieve it with certainty. In this regard, the British newspaper stressed that the option, however, has not been considered Formally and was ruled out in the meetings held between Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegesh and the head of the Joint Chiefs, General Dan Caine. GBU-57 limitations. It We count this week. It is a 13.6 tons pump capable of penetrate underground structures reinforced, the same one that has been the center of multiple debates in the Pentagon since the beginning of Trump’s mandate. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DRA), responsible for testing and analyzing this kind of weapons, has pointed out that Fordow, about 80 meters underground, is beyond the operational reach of this ammunition without a PREVIOUS PREPARATION OPERATION that includes the destruction of aerial defenses, elimination of GPS interference and a possible saturation attack with conventional weapons to weaken the land. Even so, even under optimal conditions, the impact of a GBU-57 pump It could be limited to collapsing tunnels, sealing accesses and burying machinery under debris, but not to completely dismantle Iran’s nuclear capacity. The bomb, in addition, has never been used Under real conditions against an installation such as Fordow, which adds technical uncertainty to the already high political risk of initiating an open conflict. Absolute success or deterrence. The Guardian explained That for some high controls, the real problem is not the bomb itself, but the expectation of a “One and Done (unique and decisive attack) that does not conform to operational reality. The retired general Randy Manner, former Draw director, He warned that ForDow could be … Read more

The drones of the greatest attack against Russia lost the signal before reaching the target. Ukraine had an ace in the manga

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On June 1 and the agreed time, trucks parked for weeks in several points from Russia They opened their doors. A swarm of more than 100 advanced drones thus began a mission that was destined for several air bases in Moscow. Upon reaching the designated objectives, explosive loads were automatically activated. The mission was historic for The sophistication level in the Uncianned war. In fact, the drones even lost every signal before achieving the goal. And at that time the algorithms came into play. The face that changes the war. We had slipped it weeks agobut now it has been The Financial Times The one described that AS in the Ukraine manga so that the Spiderweb operation was a success. The war in Eastern Europe has entered a new phase marked by accelerated integration of artificial intelligence In attack and defense systems, and in “Spiderweb”, where the drones successfully attacked Russian military airfields even beyond the Arctic Circle, it was key. A new generation. The operation, carried out by the Ukraine Security Service (SBU), not only evidenced Kyiv’s technical and strategic capacity for enemybut exposed the growing importance of Automation On the modern battlefield. Behind the attack was a new generation of drones designed by the First Contact companydirected by Valeriy Borovyk, whose flagship, The Osastands out for its sophistication, high -end materials and autonomous navigation capabilities resistant to adverse conditions and interference systems. These devices, five times more expensive that conventional drones were scheduled to continue their flight following pre -established routes even After losing signal and automatically detonate when reaching the goal. SBU map that illustrates drone transports in trucks from Cheliábinsk to the five target air bases Assisted autonomy. He counted the medium that the development of these drones has not been exclusive to a single company. Yaroslav Azhnyuk, creator From The Fourth LawHe explained that both Ukraine and Russia are expanding their deployment capacity of autonomous systems in early stages, although still with partial human intervention in the terminal guidance. For a year, Adehnyuk He has delivered To the lines of the Front Systems with these experimental functions, and other Ukrainian companies have followed the same path. The idea of ​​delegating final decisions to AI in environments where signals can be easily blocked by the enemy has become a tactical need rather than a technological ambition. In parallel, the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine recently announced the activation of carrying drones capable of Fly 300 kilometers and launch two free FPV, thus expanding the operational dimension of these tools in strategic depth. Invisible war. We had already talked about the term With optical fiber. In this war of wear, technology not only responds to advances but also to deficiencies. The lack of anti -aircraft missiles, artillery or ammunition has forced Ukraine to reinvent continuously. Civil foundations like The Prytula Foundationheaded by Bohdan Danyliv, they have contributed hundreds of fixed wing interceptors They have managed to demolish almost 250 Russian drones, demonstrating how improvised solutions have compensated for the shortage of traditional systems. Russia has not been left behind. He has identified Ukrainian drones and has counterattacked with improved modelsmany of them equipped with autonomous technology, optical fiber and even components from American video game consoles, According to services of Ukrainian intelligence. This evolution reveals a technological career in which the borders between civil and military are increasingly blurred. The Russian challenge. It We have explained: One of the most surprising turns has been the effectiveness of Russian drones connected by fiber optic cable, a seemingly rudimentary solution but brutally effective in front of Ukrainian interference systems. This technology, which allows operators to control drones without worrying about electronic blockages, has been decisive in the recent Russian offensive In the Kursk region, where they have made faster advances than at any other time since November. The Ukrainian reaction has been slow. Oleksandr Yakovenko, director of Taf Drones, recognized having underestimated the potential of this technique, and your company now tries to recover land by increasing production to 10,000 fiber optic drones per month, although he admits that they would need to manufacture at least 70,000 to match the Russian offensive capacity. New war balance. It seems clear that drone war It is no longer a complement to the conflict, but its central operating core. In an environment saturated with interference, scarcity of resources and geostrategic pressure, Ukraine and Russia face in a duel where innovation is not a luxury, but A vital imperative. Artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, improvised production networks and unexpected adaptations such as the use of cables or video games are redefining the limits of the possible. Seen, the question that looms over the coming months does not seem to be who has more drones, but who will adapt faster in a war where intelligence, in any of its forms, has become the decisive factor. Image | Ssu.gov.ua In Xataka | The Ukraine War is getting rid, first of all, with drones. And that is leaving an infinite fiber optic trail through the field In Xataka | We suspected that Ukraine drones attack had been destructive. Space images have revealed how much

For the greatest drone attack in its history

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A few hours ago an attack took place that will surely mark a turning point in the Ukraine War. kyiv launched the Greater offensive with drones From the beginning of the war, hitting Russian air bases simultaneously extended from the western border to Eastern Siberia. The operation, planned for more than a year and a half, points to an unprecedented economic and military impact for Moscow. In the heart of Russia. Ukraine has confirmed officially the authorship of one of the most unexpected and strategically significant attacks of the conflict: the operation “Spiderweb”, executed by The Ukraine Safety Service (SBU), hit the heart of Russian strategic aviation by disabling or destroying at least 34% of its fleet of long -range bombers (there is talk of more than 40), According to Ukrainian figures. The estimated economic damage, if so, would rise to 7,000 million dollarsalthough it has not yet been independently verified. This offensive, secretly planned during more than 18 months and personally directed by President Volodimir Zelenski together with the head of the SBU, Lieutenant General Vasyl Maliuk, represents a paradigm shift in the Ukrainian capacity of long -distance offensive projection, penetrating the interior of the Russian territory with camouflaged drones and operated from mobile platforms. Five key bases and nuclear deterrence touched. The offensive, which as we said took place yesterday, June 1, concentrated on Five air bases Russians: Belaya, Diaghilevo, Olenya, Ivanovo and another without specifying in the regions of Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ryazán and Amur. In these facilities, strategic aircraft such as TU-95 and TU-22m3 bombersusually used to launch cruise missiles against Ukrainian cities, as well as a A-50 plane Early alert. According to sbu sources, 41 airplanes were reached and at least one part was destroyed on land. The Images obtained They show fires on the track and mass explosions, and some sequences would include the voice of Maliuk himself qualifying the attack as a “Bavovna”, an ironic Ukrainian term to refer to explosions in territory occupied by Russia. Unprecedented clandestinity. Attack logistics also demonstrates an unprecedented level of sophistication. Had the New York Times that had images that found that the fpv drones were introduced clandestinely in Russiahidden inside wood structures that simulated houses, mounted on trucks. These vehicles were placed near the air bases and, at a timely manner, the roofs were They opened remotely To release drones, which flew directly towards the objectives without alerting defensive systems. The information It was confirmed Both the SBU and by Russian regional authorities, including the governor of Irkutsk, Igor Kobzev, who acknowledged that the drones were thrown from a truck In the town of Sredniymarking the first time Siberia suffers such an attack. Russian reactions. The Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed that five aerodromes In different regions they were attacked, although he described the offensive as a “terrorist act” of the “Kyiv regime.” Russia said the attacks in Ivanovo, Ryazán and Amur They were repelledand that several aviation teams “caught” in Murmansk and Irkutsk after drone releases from the vicinity. He also declared that the fires have already been extinguishedthat there were no victims and that some participants in the attacks have already been arrested, although these statements have not been verified by independent sources. While, Several Telegram channels Russians recognized that drones came from trucks parked on highways close to the objectives, which exposes significant structural vulnerability in the defense of Russia’s most sensitive assets. Plus: according to Russian and Ukrainian sourcesdrones left from trucks with Chelyabinsk license plates, after being armed in rented stores within the Russian territory, which again implies an unprecedented level of internal infiltration. Ukraine also suffers. The same Sunday and almost in parallel, Russia launched a powerful missile attack Against a Ukrainian training base in the Dnipró region, causing at least 12 dead and more than 60 injured, on one of the few occasions in which the Ukrainian armed forces publicly recognize significant low. As a consequence, the commander of the land forces, the general of division Mykhailo Drapatyi, He presented his resignationassuming “personal responsibility for tragedy”, reflecting a culture of control based on accountability. Although it is ensured that the majority of the staff were protected at the time of the attack, the event revives the debate on safety in military facilities to increasingly intensive and better coordinated Russian attacks. War and diplomacy. The paradox of the war is that both offensives occurred on the eve of New peace negotiations In Istanbul, promoted by Moscow. Although Kyiv had conditioned his participation to receive a Russian memorandum with proposals of Alto El Fuego, Zelenski confirmed the shipment of a delegation headed by the Minister of Defense, Rustem Uumerov. The Ukrainian president did not clarify if such a document had been received, just saying that they had Defined positions of Ukraine before the conversations. Meanwhile, Ukrainian officials accuse the Kremlin of using negotiations as dilatory maneuverwhile looking for military advances in the field after more than three years of conflict. The role of drones. The Spiderweb operation has once again evidenced the tactical value of Low cost drones such as the lack in strategic asset protection within the Russian military apparatus. The lack of reinforced hangars In air bases he left the bombers exposed to swarms of FPV drones (some possibly assisted by artificial intelligence and autonomous navigation based on image recognition), capable of operating without emitting electronic signals and without the need for human remote control. This new generation of weapons not only reduces costs and increases the effective experienced similar incidents. The proliferation of this type of weapons has changed the rules of the global air defense game, accelerating the urgency of developing countermeasures adapted to high -precision asymmetric war scenarios. A before and after. No doubt, beyond material destruction, “Spiderweb” operation It has a huge strategic and symbolic dimension, since it emails that Ukraine can penetrate deeply into the enemy territory with modest but tactically accurate technical means, challenging the idea that Russia can operate with impunity in … Read more

The war in Ukraine had a red line of 70 kilometers. West has just eliminated it after Russia’s last attack

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The last 48 hours in Ukraine have been plagued by actions and decisions that can change the course of the conflict. Russia has carried out The biggest attack to date on Ukraine with a swarm of drones and a number of missiles released as not remembered. kyiv, meanwhile, needs the help that does not arrive (Patriots) from the United States to deal with Moscow’s disposses, and in the meantime, the West has taken A decision that could change everything. The resurgence of TU-95. In the early hours of March 26, Russia executed the Most significant aerial offensive of the last months, by deploying ten strategic bombers TU-95msm To launch a wave of KH-101 cruise missiles About Ukraine. Six of these aircraft took off from the Olenya Air Base, to the north of the country next to the border with Finland, and the remaining four from Engels, east of Sarátov, in the heart of the European Russia. The trajectories of the missile substantial increase of Russian troops in the northeast of the front. The operation underlines the renewed Centrality of TU-95 In the Kremlin air strategy, despite being a design that sinks its roots in the Soviet era. We talk about a bomber that He was born In 1950. Intercontinental scope. But as important as this vestige of the past are the weapons it carries. Each Tu-95msm can load up to eight KH-101 missilesmounted externally and capable of traveling more than 5,000 kilometers, which allows them to attack objectives throughout the Ukrainian territory without abandoning Russian airspace. Empharged with pools, electronic countermeasures and 400 kilos, these missiles have become one of the pillars of the Russian offensive since the beginning of the war. Although its high cost and the existence of cheaper and smaller alternatives have generated debates about its efficiency, Russia plans to increase its production 600 units per year In 2025, a sign of its commitment to maintain strategic pressure through high precision attacks from long distances. Tu-95 Acorralado Ukraine. On the other sidewalk, Ukraine faces a new and alarming phase in its aerial defense in the face of the increase in Russian attacks With ballistic missilesthe most feared for their speed, destructive power and difficulty of interception. These projectiles, responsible for having destroyed almost half of the country’s energy capacity, have evidenced again the Patriot systems shortageunique capable of dealing effectively. Ukraine failed to intercept any of the nine Russian ballistic missiles launched, including two directed against kyiv, despite having deployed there Patriot units. Although the rest of the more than 900 drones and 65 cruise missiles were mostly neutralized, ballistic missiles represent an uncontrollable threat that has caused dozens of dead only so far from 2025, including lethal attacks against Sumy and Kryvyi Rih. Washington: Yes but no. The change of administration in the United States has meant a drastic turn in military assistance policy. While Trump has verbally condemned the last Russian attacks (he reached Call Putin “Crazy”), he did not offer new aid commitments, and his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, was sharp by stating that “we don’t have” more patriots to send. Instead of direct donations, Washington is pressing its European allies To give Part of its own arsenals, something that does not progress, because no country wants to weaken its internal defense. Raytheon, American manufacturer of the Patriots, has not yet achieved increase your production to meet the post-2022 demand. Under this new paradigm, kyiv believes that the White House would be arranged to sell systemsbut not give them awaywhich forces Ukraine to adapt its strategy to a more transactional relationship: the defense is now negotiated, it is not granted. West breaks its limits. A few hours ago, and in a significant turn in Western military policy towards war in Ukraine, Germany, together with the United Kingdom, France and the United States, has first eliminated the first time the scope restrictions in the weapons that supplies Kyiv, allowing him to directly attack military objectives within the Russian territory (beyond the 70 km). The announcement was made by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz after The biggest attack With Russian drones that we commented, an offensive that stressed the need to allow Kyiv to respond forcefully. The news marks a Posture change Regarding previous fear To provoke an escalation with a nuclear power such as Russia, and according to Merz, it establishes an essential difference between the legitimate military purposes of Ukraine and the deliberate attacks against civilians by the Kremlin. With this, they open new strategic possibilities For Ukraine, which until now had acted with containment regarding the use of western armament beyond its borders. The open doors. Although Merz He did not confirm If Germany will send Taurus missiles long range, that during your political campaign He openly supportedavoided detailing any concrete step so as not to offer informative advantage to the Kremlin. Since his arrival to power just a few weeks ago, the new chancellor has adopted an approach more discreet and pragmaticstating that total transparency can play against national security. Despite this public reserve, in Berlin the expectation that Merz could soon announce the Armament delivery For greater scope, especially in the context of the imminent visit of the Ukrainian President Zelenski to the German capital. The moment suggests that Germany is preparing the land to take that step, but wants to coordinate it carefully with its allies. The red line evolves. No doubt, the elimination of scope restrictions represents a rupture with narrative maintained by Western leaders since the beginning of the conflict, when they warned that allowing Ukraine to attack within Russia could be interpreted by Moscow as a direct involvement of NATO In war. However, the wear and tear of the diplomatic front, the repeated negative of Kremlin to participate in significant conversations and the growing brutality of Russian attacks have weakened those old red lines. For Merz and his allies, deterrence is no longer to limit the Ukrainian response, but to give Kyiv the ability to dissuade … Read more

The digital attack that paralyzed a nuclear plant without bombs and without anyone seeing it

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More than a decade ago, the world discovered a new type of weapon. I had no eyes or soldiers. Only lines of code. It was called Stuxnet and was able to sabotage an Iranian nuclear complex without internet connection. A computer worm that destroyed centrifuging designed to enrich uranium. Without alerts. No explosions. Without anyone knowing, at first, what was happening. All that we tell in our New Xataka episode presentsAvailable in the Xataka YouTube channel. Our partner Jota García, who reconstructs step by step how an operation of this caliber is told. The story starts in Natanz, an underground installation, hidden under tons of concrete in full Iranian desert. “From the outside it seems not special (…) but underground, thousands of centrifuging work work in full performance,” he says. Who decided to act? And why wasn’t a direct military intervention chosen? Apparently, with Iraq’s precedent, that road was ruled out by the country that wanted to stop this Iranian project. The alternative was Develop malware With a concrete mission: destroy without being seen. “And if instead of attacking with soldiers, we attack a computer virus?” Jota says. The trick? Infiltrate a simple pendrive in a completely isolated network. Once inside, the worm camouflaged. I watched. I expected. And only if I found the right industrial controllers, I went to action. “He didn’t attack immediately. He moved silently, analyzing everything around him.” Thus he managed to sabotage about a thousand centrifugators without the technicians being able to explain what he was failing. But there was an error. Malware spread out of Iran and ended up arriving in the West. What happened then? Who discovered the code? And what did they find inside? In the video we review how an investigation of The New York Times connected Stuxnet with the NSA, the CIA and the Mossad. Also the clues that analysts found in malware. “Stuxnet exploded four 0-Day vulnerabilities at the same time. An irrefutable proof that there was not a group of normal hackers.” Since then, nothing has been the same. Stuxnet was the first great digital attack with physical consequences. “Stuxnet was the first notice. The first great warning that the next wars can be invisible. ” Today, security threats are still present. We see them in hospitals paralyzed by Ransomware, sabotaged pipelines, In bank malware that empties accounts. Even USB pendrives remain a real threat in many organizations. Did you know this story? To what extent do you think We are protected today? We invite you to give the play in our video and leave your comments. Images | Xataka In Xataka | This hacker began to collaborate with the secret service after being arrested. What nobody knew is that he kept stealing big

A “generation” disconnection, not a cyber attack

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He blackout that occurred yesterday In Spain and Portugal He raised his alarms and from the beginning The theory that could be due to a cyber attack arose. The possibilities that it was so were not too high in view of previous events, and now from Red Electric they have discounted such an option. It has not been a cyber attack. As indicated In the countryEduardo Prieto, director of the Electricity Service, has indicated in a video intervention that “we have been able to conclude that there has been no intrusion in the electricity control systems that could have caused the incident.” Almost discarded possibility completely. In his press appearance, Prieto has indicated according to El País that “with the preliminary information available” that option is ruled out. Organizations such as INCIBE or CCN had investigated the incident and have been mentioned by this person in charge of Electricity, which makes the possibility of a cyber attack. Pedro Sánchez points to another possibility. The chief of the Executive has indicated that Red Electrica has ruled out it in his transport network and stressed that “that is very good”, but also stressed that there are more data to study and that they will demand responsibilities to private operators. The option that the intrusion occurred in third parties is therefore completely eliminated. The National Court investigates the cyber attack option. The judge of the National Court José Luis Calama has opened an investigation to verify if the blackout could be an act of computer sabotage, They point out media such as the world. Neither human failure nor meteorological phenomenon. This manager also pointed out that options such as a human error or some Atmospheric phenomenon or strange meteorological, something that also Ratified Aemet this morning. “Generation disconnection”. From Red Eléctrica, two episodes of “generation disconnection” are aimed, quite possibly in reference to the Solar energy generation. The event caused In just five seconds, 60% of all energy in Spain vanished. What happens to that disconnection. The EU had already ruled out. In the early hours of the blackout, the theory that the blackout could have occurred after a cyber attack was handled. Spain is receiving numerous intrusion attempts in its critical infrastructure, but Teresa Ribera, of the EU, soon pointed out that “there is nothing that allows us to affirm that there is some kind of boycott or cyber attack.” Image | Dmitrii E. In Xataka | What is the “energy zero” and why the supply can go suddenly but it takes hours to recover

The blackout in Spain raised the possibility of a cyber attack. The EU rules out

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He General blackout throughout Spain has caused great uncertainty about the potential causes of this “Energy zero”. One of those that are considered is that of a possible cyber attack, and agencies such as the National or Incibe Cryptological Center are investigating that option, they point out in the SER or In the country. In the last decade there has only been a great case of this type. The EU discards cyber attack. As media point out Like the worldTeresa Ribera, executive vice president for the clean, fair and competitive transition, has indicated that “there is nothing that allows us to affirm that there is some kind of boycott or cyber attack.” In his appearance before the media, Pedro Sánchez stressed that the causes of the incident are not yet known and does not rule out any option. Few outstanding cases. On December 23, 2016, the Ivano-Frankivsk region, in southwest Ukraine, He suffered a blackout as a consequence of a coordinated cyber attack that affected three of the main Ukrainian electricity companies in the region. The problem affected tens of thousands of people for a period between three and six hours. The following year a more sophisticated cyber attack caused a blackout again that affected kyiv residents, also in Ukraine. The country has been affected by blackouts after the Russian invasion after the attacks of Sandworm, a cybercrime unit associated with Russian intelligence, indicated in Tarlogic. But having them, there are. In November 2023, a series of coordinated cyber attacks affected the Denmark Energy Sectoralthough there were no blackouts but data theft. Tarlogic experts highlighted how these types of problems have increased. None, yes, has affected an almost complete country, as would have happened in this case. Usual suspects. In June 2019 A great blackout It affected 48 million people in Argentina and Uruguay. At that time there were suspicions of a potential cyberraade as the cause of the problems, but the Argentine government Indian that the cut was due to a failure in one of the transport systems from one of its hydroelectric plants in Yacryátá. It is therefore relatively frequent to associate such an event with a potential cybersecurity problem. And then, Stuxnet. What we know is how eeuu and Israel created Stuxnet malware In the second half of the 2000s. This malware managed to damage Iran’s critical infrastructures, specifically Its nuclear power plants And that showed that certain cyber attacks can be directed to critical infrastructure. The possibility is there. As they pointed out in 2019 in El Confidencial, Spain in fact already tried to prepare for this type of event. Experts like Rubén Santamarta They had warned of that risk already in 2011. During the blackout the National Cryptological Center (CNI) has indicated that the blackout could be a consequence of a cyber attack, According to the reason. Spain usually receives threats of this type. The National Center for Infrastructure and Cybersecurity Protection (CNPIC), under the Ministry of Interior, indicated in El Confidencial In 2019 that there were already “attempts at illicit accesses to this type of infrastructure.” From the country They pointed out a few months ago how Spain receives about 40,000 daily threats of diverse type. One more option, but just that. There are no data that can point to a cyber attack and therefore although the possibility is there, there is no confirmation. The blackout is exceptional and extraordinary, as indicated by Red Electrica and Spanish, which of course is also investigating what the origin of the problem has been. Image | Markus Spiske In Xataka | Another prequel of the ‘great blackout’: the solar storm that shook the world the 660 AC today would have very serious consequences

This is what we know after the versions of a possible cyber attack

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Have you tried to listen to your uslist always this Wednesday and did not carry? It was not your mobile or your connection: Spotify has once again suffered a generalized fall that has affected users in different parts of the world. The streaming platform, usually stable, He already lived an important interruption at the end of September last yearwhen both their website and the player stopped working for several hours. Problems with Spotify. According to Downdetectorthe interruption of the service began shortly before 15:00 (Spanish peninsular time). As usually happens in these cases, X quickly filled with user messages that sought to confirm the failureshare your frustration or simply understand what was happening. They pointed out that the service did not work both in applications and in its web version. 27 Spotify tricks – Control your whole music like nobody! Cyber ​​attack versions. Shortly after the failures began, Hackmanac (@h4ckmanac) He echoed an alleged claim by a group called Dark Storm. According to this versionthe interruption was caused by an attack of denial of service (DDOS), which the apparent attackers sell to interested parties. At no time was data theft or a larger scale infiltration. The message posted by the alleged group of attackers A DDOS attack (distributed denial of service) blocks a service by launching thousands or millions of simultaneous connections from different points. The objective is not to steal information, but to prevent legitimate users from accessing. It is a form of digital sabotage that, in many cases, can be rented or purchased in the Dark Web. Spotify denies a cyber attack. The Swedish company was clear about it: “The reports that it is a security attack are false,” published in x. On their community page, they added that their technical team continued to investigate the situation and that they were aware of the failures that were affecting the service. Of course, they did not offer details about the origin of the problem. The service returns to normal. After 6:00 p.m. the official Spotify status account again publishedthis time with an encouraging news for users: “Everything in order. Thank you for your patience. If you still have problems, contact @spotifycares.” The company offered no more explanations, and the question about what could have happened is still in the air. Services can fall for several reasons. In an increasingly connected world, that a platform like Spotify suffers an interruption does not automatically mean that it is being a victim of a cyber attack. In fact, in many cases, the origin of these failures is much more everyday: human errors, routine updates or simple configuration problems that are more complicated than expected. One of the most common causes are errors in content distribution systems (CDN) or domain name resolution (DNS) services. When they have problems, the user can find that the application does not load, the music does not reproduce or directly cannot log in. On other occasions, a bad configuration of the servers or a defective deployment can leave an entire platform out of service. It may also happen that the entire system works correctly … until an unexpected traffic peak arrives. If the infrastructure is not prepared to manage an avalanche of simultaneous users, the result are intermittent errors, slowness or even a total fall of the service. Although, it should be noted, the latter can also occur precisely by an attack of denial of service. Images | Spotify | Screen capture In Xataka | What is cloudflare, how it works and why a fall or block makes half the Internet fail In Xataka | Agents are the great promise of AI. They also aim to become the new favorite weapon of cybercounts

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