🇮🇷🇷🇺 Iran and Russia's secret oil tankers are floating cyber bombs, and the Coast Guard just pulled back the curtain...
In a never-before-reported operation, U.S. Coast Guard cyber teams have been fast-roping onto "dark fleet" tankers and discovering digital nightmares aboard ships hauling tens of millions of gallons of volatile crude.
The vessels run remote-control apps like AnyDesk and TeamViewer that let shadowy owners tamper with ship systems from anywhere on earth, some loaded with pirated, malware-infected software wired straight into navigation and tank controls.
In one boarding, administrators tried to remotely wipe a ship's data after U.S. forces stepped aboard.
The deception is just as deliberate.
Teams found toggle switches that flip a ship's broadcast identity like changing a nameplate, and soldered cables that pump out fake GPS coordinates, one tanker claiming to sit off Curaçao while it siphoned oil off Venezuela.
Here's the timing that really matters.
With the war ending and Hormuz reopening, analysts warn dozens of these floating time bombs stuck near the Gulf are about to flood back onto the seas.
The blockade kept them bottled up.
Peace sets them loose.
Source: Wall Street Journal / Writer: Daniel
