{"id":2609,"date":"2017-10-04T22:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T22:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2609"},"modified":"2017-10-04T22:00:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T22:00:15","slug":"russia-targets-nato-soldier-smartphones-western-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/10\/04\/russia-targets-nato-soldier-smartphones-western-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"RUSSIA TARGETS NATO SOLDIER SMARTPHONES, WESTERN OFFICIALS SAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/04\/NATO-EXERCISE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-879\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/04\/NATO-EXERCISE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/04\/NATO-EXERCISE.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/04\/NATO-EXERCISE-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/04\/NATO-EXERCISE-560x303.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/04\/NATO-EXERCISE-260x141.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/04\/NATO-EXERCISE-160x87.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced : The Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n<p>By Thomas Grove in Tapa, Estonia, Julian E. Barnes in Brussels and Drew Hinshaw in Orzysz, Poland<\/p>\n<p>Russia has opened a new battlefront with NATO, according to Western military officials, by exploiting a point of vulnerability for almost all allied soldiers: their personal smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>Troops, officers and government officials of North Atlantic Treaty Organization member countries said Russia has carried out a campaign to compromise soldiers\u2019 smartphones. The aim, they say, is to gain operational information, gauge troop strength and intimidate soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Defense Ministry didn\u2019t respond to a request for comment. Russian officials deny that Moscow stages such attacks.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. and other Western officials said they have no doubt Russia is behind the campaign. They said its nature suggests state-level coordination, and added that the equipment used, such as sophisticated drones equipped with surveillance electronics, is beyond the reach of most civilians.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign has targeted the contingent of 4,000 NATO troops deployed this year to Poland and the Baltic states to protect the alliance\u2019s European border with Russia, as tensions with Moscow are on the rise, Western military officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/russia-targets-soldier-smartphones-western-officials-say-1507109402?mod=e2tw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced : The Wall Street Journal By Thomas Grove in Tapa, Estonia, Julian E. Barnes in Brussels and Drew Hinshaw in Orzysz, Poland Russia has opened a new battlefront with NATO, according to Western military officials, by exploiting a point of vulnerability for almost all allied soldiers: their personal smartphones. Troops, officers and government officials&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/10\/04\/russia-targets-nato-soldier-smartphones-western-officials-say\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RUSSIA TARGETS NATO SOLDIER SMARTPHONES, WESTERN OFFICIALS SAY<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[66,673,27],"class_list":["post-2609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","tag-nato","tag-poland","tag-russia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2610,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions\/2610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}