Russia-Ukraine War: Fears of a major ‘Cyber Attack’ in Europe
Russia-Ukraine War: French Space Command chief General Michel Friedling said that there was a cyber attack. He said, “After the launch of the campaign, for several days, we have a satellite network, which specifically covers Europe and Ukraine, it became a victim of cyber attack. Lakhs of terminals were disabled shortly after the attack. He further informed that he was talking about Viaset.
Amidst Russia’s increasing military activities in Ukraine, there is a possibility of ‘cyber attacks’ in Europe. It is reported that thousands of internet users from many countries have been affected. Military and cyber experts fear that due to the ongoing tension between Russia and Ukraine, there may be a wave of cyber attacks, which can create an impact on the world. The outage also affected thousands of wind turbines in Germany and Central Europe.
According to AFP, thousands of Internet users in Europe were affected. Sources have expressed the possibility that it could be a cyber attack. The agency quoted Orange as saying that some 9,000 subscribers to satellite Internet service provided by its subsidiary Nordnet in France were unable to access the Internet after a “cyber incident” on ViaSat on February 24. Viasat is a US satellite operator.
BigBlue Satellite Internet Service also confirmed in a conversation with AFP that on Friday, a third of BigBlue’s 40,000 subscribers in Europe, Germany, France, Hungary, Greece, Italy and Poland were affected after the outage in ViaSat. . In the US, ViaSat said on Wednesday that there was a partial network shutdown in Europe “in Ukraine and in some places” due to a “cyber incident”. This affected the customers who depended on their KA-SAT satellite.
Here, French Space Command chief General Michel Friedling said that there was a cyber attack. He said, “After the launch of the campaign, for several days, we have a satellite network, which specifically covers Europe and Ukraine. It became a victim of cyber attack. Lakhs of terminals were deactivated shortly after the attack. He further informed that they were talking about ViaSat.
About 5800 wind turbines went offline due to outages in Germany and Central Europe. Germany’s Enercon said, “At present, remote control and monitoring of thousands of wind power converters is only possible to a certain extent due to major satellite disruptions in Europe.” The company said the troubles began on February 24. He informed, ‘Wind turbines do not pose many dangers.’ At the same time, they will continue to produce energy, but they cannot be reset remotely if needed.
The German daily Handelsblatt reported that according to a report from Germany’s Federal Office of Internet Security, it could be assumed that the outages were the result of a ‘cyber attack’.
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