The New York Times reported on Friday that the blackout on 3rd January, ahead of the US abduction of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, was caused by a cyberattack, citing unnamed officials familiar with the operation.
If accurate, it would represent one of the clearest public indications yet that the US has used cyber tools to produce real-world infrastructure disruption during an overseas raid, something rarely acknowledged given the highly classified nature of such operations.
President Donald Trump appeared to hint at the US role in the outage during a press conference following the raid, known as Operation Absolute Resolve.
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