US and its allies say Russia waged cyberattack that took out satellite network

The US and European Union on Tuesday said Russia was responsible for a cyberattack in February that crippled a satellite network in Ukraine and neighboring countries, disrupting communications and a wind farm used to generate electricity.“Today, in support of the European Union and other partners, the United States is sharing publicly its assessment that Russia launched cyber attacks in late February against commercial satellite communications networks to disrupt Ukrainian command and control during the invasion, and those actions had spillover impacts into other European countries,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrote in a statement. “This cyberattack had a significant impact causing indiscriminate communication outages and disruptions across several public authorities, businesses and users in Ukraine, as well as affecting several EU Member States.”In a separate statement, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said: “This is clear and shocking evidence of a deliberate and malicious attack by Russia against Ukraine which had significant consequences on ordinary people and businesses in Ukraine and across Europe.”Starting around January 2022, in the lead-up to Russia’s invasion of its neighboring country, Russia unleashed a host of other cyberattacks against Ukrainian targets, including a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks, website defacements, and wiper attacks.Besides the two attacks on Ukrainian electricity infrastructure, evidence shows Russia is also responsible for NotPetya, another disk wiper that was released in Ukraine and later spread around the world, where it caused an estimated $10 billion in damage.