April 2025: Vanity Fair reports that a DHL pallet in Birmingham, England, last July caught fire, with a similar events occurring in Leipzig, Germany and near Warsaw, Poland. The incendiary devices were suspected to be part of an “ongoing campaign to sow chaos across Western Europe” by Russia’s military intelligence agency.
The ongoing campaign includes “sabotage and hijacking as well as more modern kinds of strikes, such as breaching databases, tampering with navigational systems, and potentially even the hacking of onboard systems.” One example is the manifestation of a demonstration conducted by the RNL’s Dr. Humphreys showcasing GPS spoofing. These types of attacks are increasingly common in certain areas of the world, and “current aircraft navigation systems can’t detect it” according to Xavier Orr, cofounder of Advanced Navigation. For more on the story read the Vanity Fair article here.
