Russia Dubbed as the “Centre” of European-wide Cyber-Attacks

Since the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the EU, UK, US, and other allies have recognized that Russia has been behind a wave of cyber-attacks. The most recent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Viasat’s commercial communications network in Ukraine, which occurred on the same day that Russia launched its full-fledged invasion, had a greater impact across Europe, disrupting wind farms and internet users. 

The outage on Viasat affected almost one-third of bigblu’s 40,000 users throughout Europe, including Germany, France, Hungary, Greece, Italy, and Poland, according to Eutelsat, the parent company of bigblu satellite internet service. The incident impacted wind farms and internet users in central Europe, creating outages for thousands of Ukrainian customers. 

In the regard, the key statements by the West are as follows:

• The European Union said that Russia was behind the strike, which occurred “one hour before” the invasion of Ukraine. 
• Estonia: The member of the European Union went even further. With “high certainty,” the country blamed the hack on Russia’s military intelligence arm, saying it had “gone counter to international law.” 
• The United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre is “almost convinced” that Russia was behind the Viasat attack, according to the UK, citing “new UK and US intelligence.” Meanwhile, the report said that “Russian Military Intelligence
  
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