Cyber Security Headlines – March 21, 2022

CISA, FBI tell satellite communications network owners to watch out for hacks

after Ukraine attack

This alert forms part of CISA’s “Shields Up” program which responds to potential Russian cyberattacks related to the Ukraine conflict. As part of the defense of SATCOM network, the program asks all organizations to “significantly lower their threshold for reporting and sharing indications of malicious cyber activity.” As an example of the danger, Victor Zhora, the deputy chairman of the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine, described to the media how the digital sabotage of Viasat’s KA-SAT satellite hours before the Russian in…