The Wire - February 22, 2024

this is the wire for 1900 zillu February 22nd 2024 president's routine information cut off is 1800 bottom line up front multiple Nationwide cyber events impact the United States beginning with international events in the Red Sea Horn of Africa region the BBC has obtained recent imagery indicating the status of the merchant vessel rubar the photos confirm that the vessel is not completely sunk but severe flooding has caused such substantial trim by the stern that her deck is a w wash at the base of the accommodation superstructure likewise the bulbas bow is almost completely above the water line analyst comment the status of Salvage operations is unclear though details are very scarce by last report she is uncrewed and is being towed into poor Djibouti on the home front in the United States this morning many cyber events were reported on a variety of platforms utilities and critical infrastructure the main cyber event involved a mass cellular outage throughout the majority of the continental United States the outage initially appeared to be largely confined to the at& Network and various subsidiaries but problems were also reported by Verizon users the cause of this outage is unclear and it is not known how or if this one event cascaded to impact other Industries throughout the day in a possibly separate incident many pharmacies across the United States have reported computer systems being offline allegedly due to a Cyber attack specifically targeted is software provided by change Healthcare that is used to manage records and fill prescriptions by many pharmaceutical chains throughout the United States Wells Fargo brokerage used users also reported problems accessing their accounts this morning it is unclear as to if this was related to any of the other cyber events reported so far today occurring nearly simultaneously with the initial cellular outage and x-class solar flare caused widespread degradation of some radio communications analyst comments for this wire while the direct causes of today's cyber events are not confirmed at this time more generally this is likely a culmination of years of mission creep and Doctrine shift among Communications networks which have resulted in not just significant cyber security vulnerabilities but also a crisis of Competency as such it is important to remember that since most 911 call centers are heavily reliant on Commercial Telecom networks many emergency services were offline for several hours also important to consider for the future is that adversaries conducting an attack will likely time the attack to coincide with a period of natural radio degradation such as during a natural solar event this compounds the degradation of communications and ensures that maximum Effectiveness is achieved though for fortunately this particular solar flare did not degrade radio coms as much as it could have conversely the timing of such a substantial collection of cyber events is suspicious last week Congress raised the alarm regarding an unidentified threat specifically related to Russia's attempt to imp Place weapons in space that can be used to Target communication satellites as no hard details of this threat have been revealed and the story has disappeared from all mainstream media this was likely an attempt to force more funding through Congress for Ukraine consequently the the possibility must be considered that these cyber events could have a variety of causes deliberate Cyber attack by an adversary gross incompetency on the part of a telecom company or a false flag attack intended to increase funding are all equally likely theories until more details are made public concluding with an administrative note as announced on various social media platforms the ghostnet stop Gap Communications plan that we have developed was activated during this crisis and functioned as designed though far from perfect and a work in progress this system was intended to ease the burden of transitioning to Citizen run HF radio based news sources if and when normal cell networks or Internet sources are down taking advantage of real world events to conduct Readiness tests can be a low-risk way to test one's own response and determine deficiencies for those interested in learning more about our ghostnet project details can be found on our YouTube channel to include various tutorials for getting set up for free this concludes the wire for 1900 zillu February 22nd 2024