The Silent Packets

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April 2025 – In a sensitive maritime surveillance context, one of our autonomous drones operating offshore experienced a critical security incident. This drone was remotely operated via a satellite link and was equipped with an onboard Linux system integrating both OT and IT layers, including a web-based supervision server for operators. Log data shows that the drone temporarily:

  • lost its GPS connection,

  • experienced partial communication jamming,

  • and most notably: an unknown kernel module was dynamically loaded.

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