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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.

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The day the Russian invasion started, Viasat, a provider of high-speed satellite broadband services, had an outage.

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Thomas Rid

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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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