Massive Cyber-attack on Satellites: thousands without internet in Europe

Several thousand internet users across Europe found themselves offline following a likely cyberattack at the beginning of Russia’s attack on Ukraine.

Almost 9,000 internet subscribers provided by its subsidiary France’s Nordnet are without the service following a “cyber event” at Viasat, a US satellite operator of which it is a client.

The parent company of the bigblu satellite internet service, Eutelsat, also told that around one-third of bigblu’s 40,000 subscribers in Europe, in Germany, France, Hungary, Greece, Italy and Poland, were impacted by the outage on Viasat.

Cybersecurity and intelligence experts fear a possible spillover from Ukraine and Russia conflict, cyber attacks and cyber weapons used by threat actors involved in the cyber dispute could target infrastructure all over the world.

While Russia is targeting Ukraine with wipers, DDoS attacks, and disinformation campaigns, hacktivists like Anonymous are providing their support to Ukraine targeting government organizations and private businesses in Russia and Belarus.