Satellite operator Viasat has confirmed that destructive malware was behind the problems with end-user modems in Ukraine and parts of Europe on the day Russia invaded Ukraine. SentinalLabs researchers ...
Hackers who crippled tens of thousands of satellite modems in Ukraine and across Europe are still trying to hobble U.S. telecommunications company Viasat as it works to bring its users back online, a ...
CARLSBAD, Calif., Dec. 4, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT), a global communications company, today announced its Mobile Broadband Router (MBR)-4020 airborne modem has successfully ...
A malicious software command that immediately crippled tens of thousands of modems across Europe anchored the cyberattack on a satellite network used by Ukraine’s government and military just as ...
CARLSBAD, Calif., June 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT), a global communications company, today announced its Commercial Broadband Modem (CBM)-400 became the first-ever ...
The incident against Viasat's KA-SAT network took place on Feb. 24, the same day that Russia invaded Ukraine. According to Viasat's incident summary, a targeted denial of service attack was first ...
Viasat goes on to add that “these destructive commands overwrote key data in flash memory on the modems, rendering the modems unable to access the network, but not permanently unusable." SentineLabs ...
Hackers who crippled tens of thousands of satellite modems in Ukraine and across Europe are still trying to hobble Carlsbad satellite communications company Viasat as it works to bring its users back ...