BURKINA FASO 🇧🇫 |
Après avoir revendiqué hier matin une attaque contre un poste de VDP à Niamana (voir post en citation), le JNIM a revendiqué 4 autres attaques dans le pays (voir carte 🗺️ ci-dessous) :
- La prise de contrôle d’un poste VDP à Namsiguia (Région de Kaya), le matin du 28/10.
- La prise de contrôle d’un poste de l’armée burkinabè à Bilanga (région de Fada N’Gourma), le matin du 28/10.
- La prise de contrôle d’un poste VDP à Mantou (région de Fada N’Gourma), le soir du 28/10.
- La prise de contrôle d’un poste de l’armée burkinabè et VDP à Boussougo (Près de Ouahigouya), le soir du 28/10.
ℹ️ Ces 5 revendications en 24 heures illustrent la pression que le JNIM cherche à exercer sur les forces de sécurité burkinabè, malgré les violents affrontements récemment signalés avec l’EIS dans le pays.
⚠️ Au Mali, le JNIM a également revendiqué 2 attaques ce 29 octobre :
- Un engin explosif visant un poste des FAMa à Nampala (Région de Ségou)
- Un IED visant l’Africa Corps 🇷🇺et les FAMa entre Mourdia et Kouala (Région de Koulikoro)
BURKINA FASO 🇧🇫 |
After claiming an attack yesterday morning against a VDP post in Niamana (see quoted post), JNIM has claimed 4 additional attacks in the country (see map 🗺️ below):
- The takeover of a VDP post in Namsiguia (Kaya Region), on the morning of 28/10.
- The takeover of a Burkinabè army post in Bilanga (Fada N’Gourma region), on the morning of 28/10.
- The takeover of a VDP post in Mantou (Fada N’Gourma region), on the evening of 28/10.
- The takeover of a Burkinabè army and VDP post in Boussougo (Near Ouahigouya), on the evening of 28/10.
ℹ️ These 5 claims in 24 hours illustrate the pressure that JNIM seeks to exert on Burkinabè security forces, despite the violent clashes recently reported with the EIS in the country.
⚠️ In Mali, JNIM has also claimed 2 attacks on this 29 October:
- An explosive device targeting a FAMa post in Nampala (Ségou Region)
- An IED targeting the Africa Corps 🇷🇺 and FAMa between Mourdia and Kouala (Koulikoro Region)
The Southern Giants’ forces have released a recent video showing them reaching the outskirts of Hayd al-Aqrabi in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, laying siege to Ansarallah in the area. However, these movements form part of temporary incursions into an area which, like Dhubah Airport, is difficult for either side to defend.
This is why the Sana’a forces at Bab el Mandeb and on the island of Perim are supplied by sea rather than via the coastal road. Hence the importance of controlling the inland mountains to secure the coast; these are currently being taken by Ansarallah in a war of attrition against the Giants’ forces (primarily) and the PLC, the outcome of which will have profound implications for the city of Aden. 🇾🇪
The Southern Giants’ forces have released a recent video showing them reaching the outskirts of Hayd al-Aqrabi in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, laying siege to Ansarallah in the area. However, these movements form part of temporary incursions into an area which, like Dhubah Airport, is difficult for either side to defend.
This is why the Sana’a forces at Bab el Mandeb and on the island of Perim are supplied by sea rather than via the coastal road. Hence the importance of controlling the inland mountains to secure the coast; these are currently being taken by Ansarallah in a war of attrition against the Giants’ forces (primarily) and the PLC, the outcome of which will have profound implications for the city of Aden. 🇾🇪
[Reuters] The Pentagon is treating the spate of mysterious freezer malfunctions that spoiled food at military bases across the United States in August as a suspected hack, according to four officials familiar with the matter.
One of the officials said the military investigators were in touch with their French counterparts about a similar cyberattack on commercial freezers that disrupted supermarkets there earlier this month.
Reuters was not able to ascertain how far along the Pentagon's investigation was or whether it had reached any conclusions about what happened or who might be responsible. When asked about the investigation, the Pentagon said that a unit of Cyber Command — the military's cyber force — was "working in close coordination with interagency and law enforcement partners." It did not elaborate.
The US Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division said its Cyber Field Office was involved in the investigation and that it was working with French law enforcement to better understand "the refrigeration outages in Europe."
The late August malfunctions in the United States affected at least six commissaries — on-base stores where military personnel buy their food — according to a Reuters review of the military bases' contemporaneous Facebook posts and website updates. In at least one of the cases, the freezers did not simply stop working; the cooling units' temperatures were cranked up overnight, yielding mounds of wilted or melted food in the morning.
The Fort Huachuca, Arizona, Facebook account explained on August 26 that its freezer "went into defrost mode where it heated up all the food. Trust us when we say it was 'spoiled.'"
The spate of rogue freezer behavior and the possibility of cybersabotage were first reported on August 28 by a recently created blog called Signal and Silence. The involvement of military investigators and their contacts with the French were reported by the newspaper Stars and Stripes and Britain's Daily Telegraph, respectively. The news that the investigators were treating the incident as a suspected hack is being reported here for the first time.
The French Embassy in Washington said it would have no comment.
FRENCH FREEZERS FRIED
If confirmed to be a cyberattack, the refrigerator malfunctions would be another illustration of how vulnerable critical infrastructure — in this case cold storage — can be to hackers.
The French freezer cyberattack overrode the temperature controls on commercial cooling units in more than 350 establishments, leading to dramatic scenes as supermarkets' frozen food aisles were cleared of spoiled merchandise.
The French hack involved cranking the temperature inside the units up rather than merely knocking them offline, similar to what happened in Fort Huachuca in Arizona. Some French refrigeration units had the temperature turned up so high they caught fire. The French attack's total costs could add up to tens of millions of euros nationwide, one supermarket owner estimated earlier this month.
The French cyberattack appeared to have been easy to pull off, experts previously told Reuters. The Danish firm Danfoss, whose controllers ran many of the stricken units, said that many of the devices were obsolete or were running outdated firmware, which could have made it easy for hackers to break in. Reuters could not establish whether Danfoss or any other brand of freezer controller were in use at the affected US bases. Danfoss did not return messages seeking comment.
CHILLING HACKS
Refrigeration plays a critical role in the distribution of fresh food and the sabotage of cold storage facilities over the internet has long been seen as a nightmare scenario, alongside the loss of electricity or water plants.
Earlier this year, the Global Food Safety Initiative, an industry body, called on food safety professionals and IT leaders to work together to ensure "robust cybersecurity" for refrigeration technology, noting that "a hacked cooling system is just as dangerous as a broken one."
Hackers have previously sabotaged fridges and freezers both in the United States and elsewhere.
Danfoss has said that, in 2022, hackers either targeted or broke into supermarkets in Russia and Israel that were using obsolete versions of its cold storage controllers. In December of last year, federal prosecutors in Los Angeles accused a Ukrainian woman of being part of a hacker group that knocked out the refrigeration at a meatpacking facility in 2024, ruining more than 2,000 pounds of meat.
The root problem was that controllers that were initially conceived as isolated interfaces that would be serviced by an in-person technician were increasingly being connected to the internet, said Bill Moore, the chief executive of industrial cybersecurity firm Xona Systems. Concerns about online exposure were not unique to cooling systems, he said, but they could have particularly serious consequences there.
"It can definitely disrupt the supply chain for food," he said.
⭕️نفّذت قوات الهندسة التابعة للواء إفرايم صباح اليوم (الخميس) أعمال إغلاق الفتحتين اللتين تم العثور عليهما في قلقيلية الشهر الماضي.
⭕️وقد أُغلقت الفتحتان بشكل نهائي من خلال صبّ الخرسانة، بعد أن أُغلقتا بشكل أولي فور العثور عليهما.
⭕️نذكّر مجددًا بأنه بعد استكمال فحص الفتحتين، تبيّن أنهما فتحتا دخول دون وجود فتحات خروج.
⭕️كما تم استبعاد وجود مسار نفق متصل بهما، وتبيّن أنهما لا تقعان بالقرب من منطقة التماس.
— Lieutenant Colonel Ella Waweya | إيلا واوية (@CaptainElla1) October 29, 2026
Translated Text:
⭕️Engineering forces affiliated with the Ephraim Brigade carried out operations this morning (Thursday) to close the two openings discovered in Qalqilya last month.
⭕️The two openings were permanently sealed by pouring concrete, after they had been initially closed immediately upon discovery.
⭕️We remind again that after completing the inspection of the two openings, it was determined that they were entry openings without any exit openings.
⭕️The existence of a tunnel path connected to them was ruled out, and it was determined that they are not located near a friction area.
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