NEWPORT, Wales ¨C Russia was behind a massive cyberattack against a satellite internet network that took tens of thousands of modems offline at the onset of Russia-Ukraine war, the United States, Britain, Canada, Estonia and the European Union said Tuesday.
The digital assault against Viasat¡¯s KA-SAT network in late February took place just as Russian armor pushed into Ukraine. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the cyberattack was intended ¡°to disrupt Ukrainian command and control during the invasion, and those actions had spillover impacts into other European countries.¡±
British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss called the satellite internet hack ¡°deliberate and malicious,¡± and the Council of the EU said it caused ¡°indiscriminate communication outages¡± in Ukraine and several EU member states.
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