While the war continues due to Russia’s invasion attempt against Ukraine, another war is taking place in the internet world. Internet connection is critical to maintain communication in today’s war environment. In this context Elon Musk has opened thousands of Starlink terminals. While sending it to Ukraine, details about the Viasat attack, which took place on the day of the invasion attempt, came to light.
With this attack, it was aimed to cause the loss of communication of the Ukrainian army, but thousands of civilian Viasat customers in Ukraine as well as tens of thousands of people in Europe were victimized by losing their internet connection.
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EU: Viasat attack carried out by Russia
The Council of the European Union described the attack on the KA-SAT satellite network operated by Viasat as “strongly condemning” issued a press release and said it was safe from the cyberattack. officially blamed Russia. Cybersecurity researchers said the Russians used malware called “AcidRain” in the attack.
Thanks to this malware, modems used by customers are disabled remotely. Even today, more than two months have passed since the invasion attempt and the cyber attack, but this attack on Viasat has not been fully corrected. In the statement made by Viasat, it was stated that approximately 30 thousand routers were sent for customers affected by the attack.
This is not the only cyber-attack by Russia. The UK’s National Center for Cyber Security said that Russian military intelligence was responsible for falsifying Ukrainian government websites in January and deploying Whispergate malware prior to the invasion.
SentinelLabs noted similarities between AcidRain and the FBI’s VPNFilter malware in 2018, which was thought to be linked to Russian military intelligence known as “Fancy Bear” or APT28.
Internet, Second front in the Russia-Ukraine war proved to be. Many hacking groups, especially Anonymous, carried out serious attacks against Russia, and as a result, Russia closed its internet to the outside. While many platforms, especially Facebook and Instagram, are banned by the Russian government, there are campaigns that disparage Ukraine on Russian platforms.
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