2022
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Viasat KA-SAT Wiper Attack Knocked Out Satellite Broadband at the Start of the Ukraine Invasion
Minutes before Russia's invasion on 24 February 2022, a wiper attack against Viasat's KA-SAT ground infrastructure took roughly 45,000 modems offline across Ukraine and Central Europe — the first major cyber-physical attack on a civilian satellite network during wartime.