Russian cyberattack on Viasat KA-SAT network spills into EU
24 Feb 2022 · Several EU states · Official attribution
About an hour before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, a cyberattack disabled terminals on Viasat's KA-SAT satellite network. Outages hit Ukraine and also several EU member states. The EU, UK and US attributed the attack to Russia in May 2022. The map point is a general marker for central Europe.
Established by. Declaration by the EU High Representative on behalf of the EU, 10 May 2022 ('conducted by the Russian Federation'), with parallel UK and US attributions.
Latest. Attribution unchanged. The EU cites the attack as an example of spillover risk from attacks on Ukraine.
Link to the war against Ukraine. The attack was designed to disrupt Ukrainian command and communications at the start of the invasion.
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