US airport websites suffer attack from pro-Russian hackers

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Websites at major airports in the United States stopped working in curtos periods this Monday (10) after a cyber attack carried out by a group of pro-Russian hackers. It was a denial of service attack, called DDOS, which means disconnecting a website by overloading it with traffic. The actions affected airports in Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix and Saint Louis.

After the sites were shut down, the pro-Russian hacker group known as KillNet published a list of sites and encouraged his followers to attack them.

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The DDOS attacks only affected the public part of websites offering information about flights and services, and had no impact on operations. Information began to grow on social media:

Last week, the group KillNet claimed responsibility for attacks against several US government websites and has also targeted other countries that oppose Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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To date, the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has not commented on the case.

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Source: AFP

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