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The Cyberwar In Yemen

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

By most accounts, the war in Yemen is a brutal and lethal tragedy of the modern world that has claimed the lives of thousands of people. 


With the backing of western military industrial power, the Saudi-led coalition has undertaken a relentless bombing campaign against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels that ousted President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and his regime from the capital Sanaa in 2015.


Human rights watchers have accused the Saudis and its allies of war-crimes and a string of attacks against civilians. Just this last weekend the International Red Cross said the Saudis had killed over 100 people in a single strike on a detention center. 


And as the kinetic war rolls out IRL, the Yemeni people have also been casualty to a silent war: one that’s online.


On this week’s episode we sit down with Winnona DeSombre, a threat intelligence researcher at RecordedFuture to talk about how cyberwarfare and espionage has been a serious feature in the war in Yemen.


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0:00.0

Tanneness got the code it's going to launch.

0:09.0

It's a unit system.

0:13.0

I know this.

0:15.0

It's all the files of the whole park.

0:18.0

It tells her everything.

0:19.0

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:21.6

The Eagle won. The package is being delivered.

0:24.6

By most accounts, the war in Yemen is brutal, lethal, nightmarish, and a living tragedy of the modern world.

0:32.6

With the backing of Western military powers and weapons, the Saudi-led coalition has undertaken

0:38.4

a relentless bombing and land campaign against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels since 2015.

0:44.6

Britain, the U.S. and France may be complicit in war crimes in Yemen.

0:48.1

That's according to a new United Nations report.

0:51.1

Iran is also being implicated.

0:52.9

The UN says the Saudi-led coalition's use of

0:55.1

starvation as a tactic may also amount to a war crime. Human rights watchers have accused the

1:01.0

Saudis of war crimes and a string of attacks against civilians. Just this last weekend, the

1:06.8

International Red Cross said the Saudis had killed over 100 people in a single strike on a detention center.

1:13.2

We were sleeping, and at around midnight there were maybe three or four, maybe six strikes.

1:19.2

They were targeting the jail. I really don't know how many bombs.

1:24.2

There were a hundred of us on the ground floor and 150 on the first floor.

1:28.9

But as the kinetic war rolls out IRL, the Yemeni people have also been casualty to a silent war, one that's online.

1:36.8

On this week's episode, I sit down with Winona de Somber, a threat intelligence researcher at Recorded Future,

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