Thats...kinda interesting...

 

Nonprofit that tracks meteors taken down

 by "critical blow" from a cyberattack

arstechnica 09/16/26

"The International Meteor Organization, the nonprofit that coordinates and publishes amateur and professional observations of meteor phenomena, said its infrastructure has suffered a “critical blow” from a cyberattack.

“We recently suffered a cyberattack that dealt a critical blow to aging infrastructure, taking much of our site offline,” a static page on its website on Wednesday said. “We expect several weeks of partial downtime as we transition to new infrastructure and services.”

"In the meantime, the IMO said it’s prioritizing the reporting of fireball observations, which can be reported here. The organization is also providing some information on its Facebook page.

(Well why?

Its all due to the increase in 

Ring Doorbell cameras im sure.

)

"Its databases of reported meteor and fireball observations—made up of text, photos, and videos—are also considered essential by many in the field."

(Thats why they took it down yo.)

"It’s unclear why an organization that tracks large, fiery space objects hurtling toward Earth would be the target of a damaging cyberattack. 

Well?

"considered essential by many in the field."

Would be a pretty good start.

And me and honey 

been talking about this 

for a while now.

The possibility

of a 3I/Atlas fragment

hitting earth right when a 

nuclear war broke out 

and nobody would know the difference.

We aere talking about that

summer/fall of 25 onward.

Seeing all these fireballs like we been seeing

JUST AINT NORMAL.

Somethin is up and now:

"databases of reported meteor 

and fireball observations—made up of text,

 photos, and videos—are also considered 

essential by many in the field"

is off line?

"It’s equally unclear why someone would want to steal its data 

(assuming that was the motive), which is mostly public."

(They don't want you to know

what's coming

seems much more plausible.)

"Attacks on organizations connected to space travel, observation, and research are rare, at least when compared to those targeting other industries."

(There's your clue:

They don't want you to know

what's coming

seems much more plausible)

"US agencies warned in 2023 that private- and public-sector space organizations may be targets of nation-state-sponsored hackers. The Russian government has also said that commercial satellites may be legitimate military targets. In 2023, Russia was reportedly tracking communications satellites used by NATO.

The American Meteorological Society was hit by a ransomware attack in 2023. Unlike that case, there are no known reports of groups or individuals claiming responsibility for the IMO attack or seeking a ransom."

Yeah...never mind about this below 

from a month ago

lets go back to 

the warning from 2023.

Brilliant Arstechnica.

Well done.

OpenAI, Anthropic issue dire cyber threat warning

Axios 08/27/26

"OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and more than 100 other companies warned Thursday that the organizations now only have months to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks."

"Signatories include a range of cloud providers, cybersecurity companies, AI companies, telecoms and financial services companies and think tanks."

makes perfect sense...