A Mysterious #Satellite #Hack Has Victims Far Beyond #Ukraine

source: https://www.wired.com/story/viasat-internet-hack-ukraine-russia/

“We have the option that the intended goal of the attackers was to actually break the terminals in order to disable the communications,” Santamarta says. “Or maybe they were expecting to deploy a specific payload to maybe eavesdrop on communications and something went wrong and the terminals were bricked. At this point, we don't know what really happened.”

In February there was the #breakdown and now a month later they still don't know exactly what happened. This company must really employ exceptional #security talent.

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