“Due to a massive disruption of the satellite connection in Europe, remote monitoring and control of thousands of wind power converters is currently only possible to a limited extent,” mentioned the producer, Germany’s Enercon which mentioned the issues began on February 24, the primary day of the invasion of Ukraine.
The outages additionally knocked offline some 5,800 wind generators in Germany and Central Europe with a mixed output of 11 gigawatts
PARIS:
Thousands of web customers throughout Europe have been thrown offline after what sources mentioned Friday was a probable cyberattack at first of Russia’s offensive in Ukraine.
According to Orange, almost 9,000 subscribers of a satellite tv for pc web service offered by its subsidiary Nordnet in France are with out web following a “cyber event” on February 24 at Viasat, a US satellite tv for pc operator of which it’s a shopper.
Eutelsat, the mum or dad firm of the bigblu satellite tv for pc web service, additionally confirmed to AFP on Friday that round one-third of bigblu’s 40,000 subscribers in Europe, in Germany, France, Hungary, Greece, Italy and Poland, had been affected by the outage on Viasat.
In the US, Viasat mentioned on Wednesday {that a} “cyber event” had prompted a “partial network outage” for patrons “in Ukraine and elsewhere” in Europe who depend on its KA-SAT satellite tv for pc.
Viasat gave no additional particulars, saying solely that “police and state partners” had been notified and had been helping with investigations.
General Michel Friedling, head of France’s Space Command, mentioned there had been a cyberattack.
“For several days, shortly after the start of operations, we have had a satellite network that covers Europe and Ukraine in particular, which was the victim of a cyberattack, with tens of thousands of terminals that were rendered inoperative immediately after the attack,” he mentioned, including that he was speaking a few civilian community — Viasat.
The outages additionally knocked offline some 5,800 wind generators in Germany and Central Europe with a mixed output of 11 gigawatts.
“Due to a massive disruption of the satellite connection in Europe, remote monitoring and control of thousands of wind power converters is currently only possible to a limited extent,” mentioned the producer, Germany’s Enercon which mentioned the issues began on February 24, the primary day of the invasion of Ukraine.
“There is no danger to the wind turbines” which proceed to supply vitality however can now not be reset remotely if wanted, the producer mentioned.
A report by Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security mentioned that it was “conceivable that the outages were the consequence of a “cyberattack”, German daily Handelsblatt reported.
Military and cyber specialists fear that the Russian-Ukrainian conflict could lead to an outbreak of cyberattacks, a “cyber Armageddon” with major consequences for civilians in Ukraine and Russia, but also globally, through a spillover effect.
But a worst-case scenario has so far been avoided, as the attacks observed appear to be contained in their impact and geographical scope.
Cybersecurity companies have observed attacks in Ukraine that deploy a new data-destroying virus, the actual effects of which are not yet known.
In Russia, institutional websites were made inaccessible from abroad, to protect them from denial of service (DOS) attacks that regularly rendered them inoperable.