Satellite Firm Viasat Probes Suspected Cyberattack in Ukraine and Elsewhere

Satellite Firm Viasat Probes Suspected Cyberattack in Ukraine and Elsewhere
Small toy figures with laptops and smartphones are seen in front of displayed Viasat Internet logo shows in this illustration, on Dec. 5, 2021. Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters
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U.S.-listed satellite communications firm Viasat Inc. said on Monday it was investigating a suspected cyberattack that caused a partial outage in its residential broadband services in Ukraine and other European countries.

Viasat said a third-party cybersecurity firm was looking into the causes of an outage in recent days across its KA-SAT network, which provides high-speed satellite internet coverage in Europe and Mediterranean markets.