The digital assault against Viasat's KA-SAT network in late February took place just as Russian armour pushed into Ukraine. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the cyberattack was intended “to disrupt Ukrainian command and control during the invasion, and those actions had spillover affects into other European countries”.
“After those modems were knocked offline it wasn't like you unplug them and plug them back in and reboot and they come back,” the US National Security Agency's Director of Cybersecurity Rob Joyce told Reuters on the sidelines of a cybersecurity conference on Tuesday.
In a statement, Ukraine's State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection said that Russia “is an aggressor country attacking Ukraine not only on our land, but in cyberspace too”. Viasat said in a statement that it “recognised” the announcement and would continue to work with government officials to investigate the hack. The company did not provide an update on a Viasat official's comments to Reuters in late March that the hackers were still trying to interfere with the company's operations, albeit to limited effect.
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