At a press conference, a Ukrainian manager for the first time, given details of the consequences of this cyberattaker.
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The cyberattack scenario against the KA-SAT satellite network, on the first day of the Russian invasion, on 24 February, begins to clear up. Tuesday, March 15, at a press conference, the Deputy Director of the Ukrainian Cybersecurity Agency returned to the consequences of the attack.
In the early hours of the day of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, several thousand modems to receive an internet connection from the KA-SAT satellite have suddenly stopped working, causing the Ukrainian state “a huge loss of Communication at the very beginning of the war, “said Viktor Zhora, the Deputy Director of the Ukrainian Cybersecurity Agency.
This is the first time that a Ukrainian manager is expressed on the concrete consequences of cyberattack. These details tend to confirm the link between it and the Russian military maneuvers, but also that the initial objective of the hackers was to disrupt some satellite links of the Ukrainian state. Several media relabated, there is little, that the latter was a customer of material to communicate using the satellite KA-SAT.
A few days ago, the Reuters press agency revealed that several Western security services , including the National Systems Safety Agency of information (ANSSI) French and the American NSA, investigated on cyberattack.
This attack “is part of the Russian methodology”
If Viktor Zhora did not want to formally designate responsible, this KA-SAT satellite attack is part of the Russian methodology, which consists of tackling communication lines, “he said. Explain. Russia is trying to disturb “satellite communications, Internet access providers, probably mobile operators. Their goal is probably to prevent Ukrainian military forces from communicating effectively,” continued this manager.
More generally, it is the whole “informational sphere” which has been targeted by Russia since the beginning of the conflict, raised Mr. Zhora, citing “the bombing of television tours” or attempts to “replace the TV channels and Ukrainian radio by theirs, in the occupied territories “.
The Deputy Director of the Cybersecurity Authority has also noted the absence of niserable cyber attacks, to which the country has been used to since 2014. It has, however, revealed that Ukraine had undergone many Less intensity offensives, more than three thousand denial of service attacks since mid-February, attacks that consist of saturating online service or a website to make it inaccessible.
Its services have also recently discovered a third malicious program strain intended to destroy data. Mr. Zhora said to lack elements to assess his gravity and hope that “his effects would not be too important.” “Russia has been conducting a cyberguerre against Ukraine for eight years, and it has not stopped with the beginning of the invasion,” he also launched.
The manager also confirmed the will of Ukraine to legally pursue Russia for the cyberattacks it launches against Ukraine as part of his invasion: “This is the first hybrid war, which takes place at both in cyberspace and in conventional space. All evidence will be useful for international justice that will pursue Russian crimes. Including crimes in cyberspace. “