It was enough for SpaceX programmers to enter one line of code to make the attack unsuccessful.
Ilona Maska's SpaceX company successfully repulsed an attack by Russian hackers to the Starlink system , which provides access to satellite Internet, in particular for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This was stated by the director of the Pentagon's electronic warfare department Dave Tremper, according to Defense news.
According to him, the Russians tried to silence the Starlink signal going to Ukraine last month.
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“The next day [after reports of Russian jamming attempts appeared in the media], Starlink added a line of code and repelled them. And suddenly this [Russian counter-attack] ceased to be effective. From the point of view of the EW technologist, this is fantastic… and I was impressed by the way they did it, ”said Tremper.
He also said that additional capabilities are also extremely important in the current situation, because if one system fails due to an attack, it can be replaced by another.
The Pentagon also stressed that Russia's attempts to conduct electronic warfare in Ukraine how important it is to react quickly and stop such attempts. The agency is monitoring how the private sector is dealing with such threats in order to improve its own line of defense.
It will be recalled that the first batch of Starlink satellite Internet stations from Ilona Maska arrived in Ukraine in response to a request from the Minister of Digital Transformation Mikhail Fedorov. After the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Elon Musk activated the Starlink Internet over our country for the first time.
Mask's Starlink system helps the Ukrainian army track and destroy the occupiers . Satellite communications are widely used in the military to communicate in hard-to-reach places – Starlink has greatly improved this process.
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