Mark Colaluca, vice president and chief information security officer at Viasat Corporate, claims that the cyberattack that disrupted satellite communications on the eve of the Ukraine war was carried out by attackers who had in-depth knowledge of the compromised system and was more extensive than first thought, CyberScoop reports. Hackers gained access to Viasat’s computer system that was used to communicate with the modems dispersed throughout Europe and the Middle East, and sent a piece of malware called Acid Rain that rendered 40,000 to 45,000 modems useless as Russian soldiers were about to cross the border into Ukraine.

Source: SC Magazine