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Fwiw, Russia pwned Viasat's satellites during invasion last year. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-behind-cyberattack-against-satellite-internet-mod

• bewaretheirs 3y ago
  They attacked the firmware of customer terminals on the ground via a management network, not the satellites themselves. See, among others: https://www.viasat.com/about/newsroom/blog/ka-sat-network-cyber-attack-overview/ https://www.viasat.com/about/newsroom/blog/ka-sat-network-cy... https://www.reversemode.com/2022/03/viasat-incident-from-speculation-to.html https://www.reversemode.com/2022/03/viasat-incident-from-spe... The terminal firmware had a bunch of security vulnerabilities allowing injection of arbitrary executables and commands without adequate signature verification. The attack bricked the terminals requiring a hardware swap to restore service.
• try_the_bass 3y ago
  They didn't hack the satellites, they hacked the modems: > "After those modems were knocked offline it wasn't like you unplug them and plug them back in and reboot and they come back,"
• mcv 3y ago
  Would it be possible to return the favour and hack Russian satellites?