Cyberattacks Likely Part of Military Operation in Venezuela

The article examines claims that US Cyber Command and other agencies provided "layering effects"—potentially including cyber operations—that contributed to power and internet outages during a US military operation in Venezuela, but experts warn the outage may instead have resulted from kinetic strikes or failing infrastructure. It reviews past US offensive cyber activity for context and emphasizes Venezuela's vulnerable telecommunications and power systems as factors that make cyber operations plausible but not conclusively demonstrated.