Australia's vulnerability to attacks on subsea cables that internet traffic flows through has been underlined by the deputy prime minister at an Asian security summit.
Richard Marles, also Australia's defence minister, has highlighted the "historically unprecedented" attacks on critical infrastructure on the ocean floor.
"It is striking that several cables have been severed across the Baltic and the Taiwan Strait since November 2024," he said at 2026 Shangri-La Dialogue, without levelling accusations at individual countries.
