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Recent indicators of the growing threat:

In the Netherlands, an individual disrupted a local bank’s computer network because he was turned down for a loan. He constructed a briefcase-size RFW, which he learned how to build from the Internet. Bank officials did not even realize that they had been attacked or what had happened until long after the event.

In Japan, two yakuza criminals were caught stealing from a Pachinko machine using a hidden high energy RF gun to interfere with the machine’s computer and falsely trigger a win.

In St. Petersburg, Russia, a criminal robbed a jewelry store by defeating the alarm system with a repetitive RF generator. “Its manufacture was no more complicated than assembling home microwave ovens.”

In Kizlyar, Dagestan, Russia, Chechen rebel commander Salman Raduyev disabled police radio communications using RF transmitters during a raid.

In Russia, Chechen rebels used an RFW to defeat a Russian security system and gain access to a controlled area.

RFWs were used in separate incidents against the U.S. Embassy in Moscow to falsely set off alarms and to induce a fire in a sensitive area.