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NEWPORT, Wales: Russia was behind a massive cyberattack<\/a> against a satellite internet<\/a> network which 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 on Tuesday.
The digital assault against Viasat<\/a>'s KA-SAT network in late February took place just as Russian armour pushed into Ukraine<\/a>. 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<\/a> \"deliberate and malicious\" and the Council of the EU said it caused \"indiscriminate communication outages\" in Ukraine and several EU member states.
The Viasat outage remains the most publicly visible cyberattack carried out since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in part because the hack had immediate knock-on consequences for satellite internet<\/a> users across Europe and because the crippled modems often had to be replaced manually.
\"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 U.S. National Security Agency's Director of Cybersecurity<\/a> Rob Joyce told Reuters on the sidelines of a cybersecurity conference on Tuesday.
\"They were down and down hard; they had to go back to the factory to be swapped out.\"
The precise consequences of the hack on the Ukrainian battlefield have not been made public, but government contracts reviewed by Reuters show that KA-SAT has provided internet connectivity<\/a> to Ukrainian military and police units.
The satellite modem sabotage caused a \"huge loss in communications in the very beginning of war,\" Ukrainian cybersecurity official Victor Zhora said in March.
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<\/a> too.\"
The Russian Embassy in Washington did not immediately return a message seeking comment. Moscow routinely denies it carries out offensive cyber operations.
Viasat said in a statement that it \"recognized\" 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.
The satellite modem-wrecking cyberattack remains the most visible hack of the war, but many others have taken place since and not all of them have been made public.
\"That was the biggest single event,\" said Joyce. \"It certainly had new and novel tradecraft, but there have been multiple attacks.\"
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在乌克兰俄罗斯击落卫星互联网:西方官员
数字攻击Viasat公司在2月底发生的KA-SAT网络就像俄罗斯盔甲推到乌克兰。美国国务卿安东尼布林肯说网络攻击的目的是“扰乱乌克兰指挥和控制入侵期间,和这些行为已经溢出影响到其他欧洲国家。”
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威尔士纽波特,:俄罗斯背后是巨大的网络攻击对一个卫星网络网络了成千上万的调制解调器离线Russia-Ukraine爆发的战争中,美国,英国,加拿大,爱沙尼亚和欧盟周二表示。
数字攻击Viasat公司在2月下旬KA-SAT网络发生就像俄罗斯装甲推进乌克兰。美国国务卿安东尼布林肯说网络攻击的目的是“扰乱乌克兰指挥和控制入侵期间,和这些行为已经溢出影响到其他欧洲国家。”
英国外交大臣Liz桁架称为卫星网络黑客“故意、恶意”,欧盟委员会表示,造成“无差别的通信中断”在乌克兰和几个欧盟成员国。
Viasat公司故障仍是最公开可见的网络攻击进行乌克兰俄罗斯入侵以来,部分原因是黑客已立即对卫星连锁影响互联网用户在欧洲,因为受损的调制解调器通常必须手动替换。
这些调制解调器把离线后不喜欢你拔掉插头他们在和重新启动他们回来,”美国国家安全局的局长网络安全罗伯·乔伊斯间隙告诉路透周二网络安全会议。
“他们下来困难;他们不得不回到工厂交换出去。”
乌克兰战场上的黑客的精确结果尚未公布,但路透政府合同审查显示,KA-SAT提供了网络连接乌克兰的军事和警察部队。
卫星调制解调器破坏造成了“巨大的损失在战争的一开始通信,”乌克兰3月维克多Zhora网络安全官员说。
在一份声明中,乌克兰的国家服务的特殊通信和信息保护说,俄罗斯是一个侵略者的国家攻击乌克兰不仅在我们的土地,但在网络空间也是。”
俄罗斯驻华盛顿大使馆没有立即回复寻求置评的消息。莫斯科经常否认进行攻击性网络操作。
Viasat公司在一份声明中表示,它“公认”的声明,并将继续与政府官员调查黑客。公司没有提供一个更新在Viasat公司官方的言论路透社3月下旬,黑客仍然试图干扰公司的操作,但是效果有限。
卫星modem-wrecking网络攻击战争仍然是最明显的黑客,但以来发生了很多人,不是所有的人都被公开。
“这是最大的单一事件,”乔伊斯说。“这当然有新的间谍情报技术,但有多个攻击。”
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