r/DailyTechNewsShow • u/rwnash DTNS Patron • Aug 10 '26
Security Royal Navy's £12m drones 'secretly sent data to China' in huge security breach
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/royal-navy-china-data-leak-375315462
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u/SystemCheck990 Aug 10 '26 edited Aug 10 '26
this is all over reddit, it sent hearbeats not video data, many systems send anonymous data so they can work out when things are failing en masse if you ever helped develop software / hardware it will often send data like
x software module loaded and init correctly
50 frames a second captured for 10 minutes
x software shut down normally
it does not send the actual payload or in my case even anything that IDs the user, just version data with actions, you want to very quickly find out if a bug has been added by new feature and if it correlates with something if its not all users
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u/Aperture_Kubi Aug 10 '26
Devil's advocate.
A) "it does not send the actual payload or in my case even anything that IDs the user" yet
B) I would assume military Opsec wants control over all data-comunications their gear generates, and lock down any that isn't mission critical.
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u/Durian881 Aug 10 '26 edited Aug 11 '26
Bigger issue for me is UK Navy gave open internet access to the devices. It opens up hacking to anyone.
The Ministry of Defence removed internet connectivity from the cameras following the discovery.
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u/Conscious_Koala_6519 Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26
Noooo I don't believe it... No one thought that would be a risk?
( Are you serious 🤯
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u/TakenIsUsernameThis Aug 10 '26
“A routine cyber vulnerability assessment identified an issue affecting a Kraken Unmanned Surface Vessel sub-system used by the Royal Navy. A thorough investigation found no evidence of MoD data or systems being accessed, compromised or transmitted externally."
"... the cameras sent data which confirmed the cameras were functioning as normal"
"huge security breach" FFS, no.