Any successful attack could have a big knock-on effect. Undersea cables are vital for funneling both data and energy across the globe. According to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 99% of the ...

Swedish prosecutors announced Sunday night that they have opened a preliminary investigation into suspected aggravated “sabotage” and ordered the detention of a vessel in the Baltic Sea suspected of ...

Swedish prosecutors have decided to release a vessel belonging to a Bulgarian shipping company after ruling out initial ...

Chunghwa Telecom Co (CHT, 中華電信) yesterday said it is boosting expenditure on deploying new undersea cables this year to as ...

Most of the world's data travels via ocean cables, which are at risk of frequent sabotage. DW explains where they lie and how they are protected.

The deployment follows multiple suspected acts of sabotage targeting Europe’s undersea cables. Add another threat to the West’s burgeoning list. Nearly all of the world’s international data ...

The Arelion submarine cable, which connects the Swedish island of Gotland to Lithuania, and the C-Lion 1 submarine communications cable that runs between Finland's capital Helsinki and the German city ...

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.

Japan is belatedly addressing an issue described as critically urgent: how to protect undersea cables used for internet ...

NATO is deploying eyes in the sky and on the Baltic Sea to protect cables and pipelines that stitch together the nine countries with shores on Baltic waters.

On Sunday, an undersea cable ferrying data between Sweden and Latvia was damaged, most likely as a result of an external force, Latvia said. This is just the latest in a string of incidents since ...

There have been previous incidents reported of ruptures of data cables running on the Baltic Sea bed, allegedly linked to Russia’s shadow fleet — hundreds of aging tankers of uncertain ...