Enlarge (credit: Sean Gladwell / Getty Images) The US and European Union on Tuesday said Russia was responsible for a cyberattack in February that crippled a satellite network in Ukraine and neighboring countries, disrupting communications and a wind farm used to generate electricity. The February 24 attack unleashed wiper malware that destroyed thousands of satellite […]
Enlarge / A Viasat internet satellite dish in the yard of a house in Madison, Virginia. (credit: Getty Images) Viasat, the high-speed satellite broadband provider whose modems were knocked out in Ukraine and other parts of Europe earlier this month, has confirmed third-party researchers’ theory that new wiper malware with possible ties to the Russian […]
Enlarge / 60 Starlink satellites stacked for launch at SpaceX facility in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (credit: SpaceX) SpaceX can keep launching broadband satellites despite a lawsuit filed by Viasat, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. Viasat sued the Federal Communications Commission in May and asked judges for a stay that would halt SpaceX’s ongoing launches of […]