07 December 2023
Viasat shares details on KA-SAT satellite service cyberattack
US satellite communications provider Viasat has shared an incident report regarding the cyberattack that affected its KA-SAT consumeroriented satellite broadband service on February 24, the day Russia invaded Ukraine. The incident report comes after the KA-SAT satellite network — "used intensively by the Ukrainian military" —was affected by a cyberattack that triggered satellite service outages in Central and Eastern Europe. The outage also disconnected modems used to control roughly 5,800 wind turbines in Germany and affected customers from Germany, France, Italy, Hungary, Greece, and Poland.
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