Why you haven't heard about the secret cyberwar in Ukraine

The digital confrontation is playing out in the shadows, as inconspicuous as it is insidious.

The day the Russian invasion started, Viasat, a provider of high-speed satellite broadband services, had an outage. PHOTO: REUTERS
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(NYTIMES) - "Cyberwar is coming!"

For decades now, we have heard this refrain from the American defence establishment. We were warned that the next big state-on-state military confrontation could start with a flash-bang cyber-attack: power outages in major cities, air traffic control going haywire, fighter jets bricked.

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