Cyber Resilience

Kyivstar telecom outage (Solntsepyok / Sandworm front) (KYIVSTAR-2023)

OT disruption · disclosed 2023-12-12 · region: EU · primary attribution: Sandworm Team

Sectors touched: Telecommunications

Largest Ukrainian mobile operator (~24M subscribers) knocked offline for days. Sandworm front "Solntsepyok" claimed the attack. Disrupted air-raid alerts in some regions during active Russian missile strikes — first public cyber operation against civilian wartime communications at this scale.

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