Security News > 2022 > June > Ukraine's secret cyber-defense that blunts Russian attacks: excellent backups

The Kremlin-backed cyberattack against satellite communications provider Viasat, which happened an hour before Russia invaded Ukraine, was "One of the biggest cyber events that we have seen, perhaps ever, and certainly in warfare," according to Dmitri Alperovitch, a co-founder of CrowdStrike and chair of security-centric think tank Silverado Policy Accelerator.

The two suggested that the primary purpose of the attack on satellite comms provider Viasat was to disrupt Ukrainian communications during the invasion, by wiping the modems' firmware remotely, it also disabled thousands of small-aperture terminals in Ukraine and across Europe.

This attack - along with several other destructive data-wiping malware infections in Ukrainian government and private-sector networks - illustrates a couple of key cyber security takeaways about Russian cyber goons.

"And that's what we've seen in cyber as well," he added.

The Russians have seen success worldwide penetrating networks and dropping malware, he added.

"The type of resilience that the Ukrainian defenders are showing right now in the cyber domain is incredible. And it's something that, for our position in Mandiant, supporting these incident responses is something that we frankly, have never seen." .

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