Service at the company, Kyivstar, “collapsed” Tuesday, according to NetBlocks,

Ukraine’s Top Mobile Internet Company is Down, Blames Russian Cyberattack

Service at the company, Kyivstar, “collapsed” Tuesday, said NetBlocks, which monitors global internet outages.

ByHomeland Security Today
December 13, 2023




The CEO of Ukraine’s largest telecommunications company said Tuesday that a Russian cyberattack took down its service, severing internet access for millions across the country.

Service at the company, Kyivstar, “collapsed” Tuesday, according to NetBlocks, a company that monitors global internet outages. Both phone and internet access are down, Kyivstar said on its Facebook page.

The outage appears to be one of the largest cyberattacks against a civilian communications system to date. At the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, hackers whom analysts traced to Russia launched an attack on Viasat, a U.S. satellite internet company popular in Ukraine.

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