00:00 Not only the sea is being blocked,
00:02 the incident of jamming of electronic and communication equipment
00:09 in Philippine ships according to the Philippine Navy is also spreading.
00:12 The Coast Guard said,
00:13 it is coinciding with the time that China is declaring
00:17 that they were able to jam the Philippine ships
00:20 in the time when the automatic identification system was lost.
00:24 Chino Gaston was on the scene.
00:26 Whenever the AFP Western Command and Philippine Coast Guard has a mission
00:34 to Yungin Shoal,
00:35 they are preparing for the jamming and interference
00:38 of their electronic and communication equipment.
00:41 The Philippine Navy does not know
00:43 what country and where these incidents came from.
00:47 But the Chinese Coast Guard and their fishing militia
00:51 are the ones who are blocking and blocking
00:53 the resupply and escort ships of the Philippines
00:55 inside the exclusive economic zone of the country.
00:58 However, this does not affect the supply operation
01:02 of the soldiers in the BRP Sierra Madre.
01:04 It has been going on for the past three or four years.
01:08 They have noticed an increase in cyber interference,
01:13 electronic interference, maybe jamming.
01:15 And this usually happens or are noted during preparation stages
01:19 for raw remissions.
01:21 Yesterday, the Philippine Coast Guard announced
01:23 that China is jamming the automatic identification system
01:27 of Philippine ships in Bajo de Masinloc.
01:30 Every time the AIS signal of our government vessels is lost,
01:35 this is also the one that hits at almost the same hour
01:40 that China will declare that they were successful in driving us away.
01:46 So what they're doing is they are jamming our AIS signal
01:51 so that no other commercially capable people
01:56 can monitor the AIS.
01:59 So that it coincides with their narrative
02:03 that they were able to drive the Philippine Coast Guard
02:05 or the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources away.
02:08 Aside from patrolling the West Philippine Sea and Bajo de Masinloc,
02:11 maritime domain awareness flights
02:14 or patrolling the AFP Northern Luzon, if any,
02:16 are still ongoing in the Tuk-Tuk region of the country.
02:19 Yesterday, the Philippine Air Force circled C295 aircraft
02:23 in the islands of Itbayat and other islands of Bambuyan Island Group in Batanes.
02:28 No foreign ships were seen inside the Philippine AIS.
02:33 Aside from patrolling the sea,
02:35 there were also attacks online on PCG.
02:38 Yesterday, their official Facebook page
02:41 posted clips of movies and TV shows.
02:44 PCG said they tried to remove the videos
02:48 but they were forced to receive a Twitch account notification.
02:51 They are continuing to work to restore access to the page
02:54 in order to help the Facebook owner.
02:58 In the initial investigation,
02:59 it was possible that there was a security breach
03:01 due to malware or malicious software.
03:03 Just last week,
03:05 the ex-account of PCG was hacked,
03:08 but they were able to restore it.
03:10 It's not yet known who's behind this.
03:13 The AFP also said that the cyber attacks on the AFP are almost non-stop.
03:17 For now, it can still be detected and stopped.
03:21 But they did not provide additional details about it.
03:25 For GMA Integrated News,
03:27 Chinugaston, Catutoc, 24 hours.
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