WP: Moscow has secret weapon against Starlink in Ukraine

Moscow has been experimenting for months with its own electronic warfare system, called Tobol, to try to interrupt Starlink transmissions in Ukraine: This is what emerges from a secret US intelligence report obtained by the Washington Post (Wp). Russia's attempt to sabotage Internet access by Ukrainian forces by targeting the Starlink satellite system that billionaire Elon Musk has provided to Kiev since the early days of the war "appears to be more advanced than previously known," he writes. . the US newspaper. The document, which is part of a series of top-secret documents leaked online via the Discord messaging platform and dates back to last month, does not indicate whether or not Russia's tests were successful. However, the intelligence discovery is still surprising, underlines the Washington Post, as it seems to confirm what experts had previously hypothesized: namely that a program apparently designed to protect the Kremlin's satellites can also be used to attack its own. opponents. SpaceX, the company that owns Starlink, declined to comment. Last spring, Musk commented on the Kremlin's attempts to target his technology, tweeting in May that the Russians would step up their efforts to attack Starlink.