Beyond the Front Lines: The KA-SAT Cyberattack’s Lasting Echoes

Beyond the Front Lines: The KA-SAT Cyberattack’s Lasting Echoes

On February 24, 2022, as Russian tanks rolled across Ukraine’s borders and missiles lit up the night sky, a less visible but equally consequential assault was unfolding in cyberspace. Just hours before the kinetic invasion began, a sophisticated cyberattack targeted Viasat’s KA-SAT satellite network, a critical communications infrastructure providing broadband internet across Europe, with a significant presence in Ukraine. This incident, widely …