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The Royal Navy has had to isolate a camera sub-system after it was found to be pinging a server in China.
Paul Hill
Neowin
@ziks_99 ·
The findings have caused a total lack of trust in the K3 Scout drone vessel, which was only deployed earlier this year.
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The Royal Navy has had to isolate a camera sub-system after it was found to be pinging a server in China.
Paul Hill
Neowin
@ziks_99 ·

Affected K3 Scout drones used a Chinese camera component that subsequently failed a routine cyber vulnerability assessment.

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Cameras installed on Royal Navy K3 Scout drone boats were found sending “heartbeat communications” to an address in China.

Cameras on the Royal Navy's sea drones contained components that reportedly sent communications to an IP address in China.

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