Seriously Risky Business Newsletter
March 10, 2022
Srsly Risky Biz: Thursday March 10
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Your weekly dose of Seriously Risky Business news is written by Tom Uren, edited by Patrick Gray and supported by the Cyber Initiative at the Hewlett Foundation, AustCyber and founding corporate sponsors CyberCX and Proofpoint.
Interesting — but not conclusive — reporting suggests that a destructive cyber incident targeting satellite communications provider ViaSat was aimed at disrupting Ukrainian military communications.
ViaSat suffered network outages on 24 February — the same day as the invasion of Ukraine — on KA-SAT spot beams servicing Eastern Europe including Ukraine. The outages had effects beyond Ukraine, including disconnecting 5,800 wind turbines in Germany from their monitoring system and also affected other customers in Germany, France, Hungary, Greece, Italy and Poland.