Event 869

{
  "category": "Uncategorized",
  "confidence": "Low",
  "confidence_rationale": "The information comes from a reputable national news outlet and is corroborated by multiple direct statements and images from the event.",
  "countries": [
    "Estonia"
  ],
  "country": "Estonia",
  "defense_prep": {
    "links": [
      "https://news.err.ee/1609685636/locked-shields-2025-cyber-defense-exercise-gets-underway-in-tallinn"
    ],
    "title": "Locked Shields 2025 cyber defense exercise underway in ??Tallinn"
  },
  "description": "Locked Shields 2025, the world's largest and most complex live-fire cyber defense exercise, has started in Tallinn, Estonia. Over 4,000 experts from 41 nations are participating, defending critical infrastructure against simulated cyber-attacks.",
  "event_time_utc": "2025-05-06T12:00:00Z",
  "evidence": [
    "Screenshots depict teams at computers and official event backdrops marked with Locked Shields and NATO CCDCOE logos.",
    "Direct references to 41 nations and large numbers of participants in the text.",
    "Description of medium: critical infrastructure defense scenarios, high-pressure multi-domain exercise."
  ],
  "evidence_quotes": [
    "\"The world's most complex cyber defense exercise, Locked Shields, has started in Tallinn, bringing together 4,000 experts from 41 different countries.\"",
    "\"Teams defend national IT systems and critical infrastructure under high-pressure realistic cyber-attack conditions.\"",
    "\"The exercise is organized by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE).\""
  ],
  "evidence_urls": [
    "https://news.err.ee/1609685636/locked-shields-2025-cyber-defense-exercise-gets-underway-in-tallinn"
  ],
  "extra": {
    "extra": {
      "extra": {
        "extra": {
          "evidence": [
            "Screenshots depict teams at computers and official event backdrops marked with Locked Shields and NATO CCDCOE logos.",
            "Direct references to 41 nations and large numbers of participants in the text.",
            "Description of medium: critical infrastructure defense scenarios, high-pressure multi-domain exercise."
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "follow_up_by_country": [],
  "headline": "Locked Shields 2025 cyber defense exercise gets underway in Tallinn",
  "location_text": "Tallinn, Estonia",
  "media_assets": [
    {
      "description": "Screenshot capture",
      "type": "screenshot",
      "url": "/media/event_869_1763941112_3e7f12a3.jpg"
    }
  ],
  "notes": "Annual NATO cyber-defense exercise simulating attacks; hosted in ??Tallinn by CCDCOE.",
  "schema_version": "v1",
  "screenshot_count": 1,
  "sources": [
    "https://news.err.ee/1609685636/locked-shields-2025-cyber-defense-exercise-gets-underway-in-tallinn"
  ],
  "summary_short": "Locked Shields 2025, a NATO-led cyber defense exercise, launches in Tallinn with over 4,000 participants from 41 countries defending critical infrastructure against live-fire cyber scenarios.",
  "url": "https://news.err.ee/1609685636/locked-shields-2025-cyber-defense-exercise-gets-underway-in-tallinn"
}

{
  "5th Column of Russians Inside (which countries)": "",
  "Attack Type": "",
  "Borders Including Sea, Air,  Violation or Sabotage (which countries)": "",
  "Continuous? (e.g. Jammers)": "",
  "Country (FI;EE;LV;LT;PL;BSR;Air)\nSeparated by Semicolon": "EE",
  "Date": "6-May-25",
  "Defense Prep Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL)": "Locked Shields 2025 cyber defense exercise underway in ??Tallinn",
  "Defense Prep Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL) REF LINK": "https://news.err.ee/1609685636/locked-shields-2025-cyber-defense-exercise-gets-underway-in-tallinn",
  "Follow-Up Link?  (FI,EE,LV,LT,PL, BSR, Air)": "",
  "Follow-Up NOTES": "",
  "Follow-Up incl. Investigation, Prosecution?  (FI,EE,LV,LT,PL, BSR, Air)": "",
  "Latitude, Longitude (WGS84, Decimal Degrees)": "",
  "NOTES": "Annual NATO cyber-defense exercise simulating attacks; hosted in ??Tallinn by CCDCOE.",
  "Political Disruptions w/ Laws to Favor Kremlin (which countries)": "",
  "Russian-Belarus Terrorist Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL)": "",
  "Russian-Belarus Terrorist Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL) REF LINK": "",
  "Screen Snapshot": "",
  "Screen Snapshots": "",
  "Type Dropdown": "",
  "Where?\n(Air, Land, Sea)": ""
}