Internet monitors said over the weekend that widespread service disruptions in Asia and the Middle East appear to have been caused by damage to undersea cables in the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia. It was not immediately clear if the cable damage was caused by deliberate sabotage.

Microsoft reported “increased network latency on traffic routes through the Middle East” due to “undersea fiber cuts in the Red Sea” on Friday.

“Network traffic is not interrupted as Microsoft has rerouted traffic through alternate network paths. We do expect higher latency on some traffic that previously traversed through the Middle East,” the bulletin said.

Netblocks, a website that monitors Internet freedom and censorship efforts, on Friday observed “degraded Internet connectivity in multiple co

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