Cyberattacks hit more than a dozen of airports in the US by Russian-speaking people and belong to the Russian Federation.
Cyberattacks hit more than a dozen of airports in the US by Russian-speaking people and belong to the Russian Federation.
On Monday morning, LaGuardia airport was the first to report the problems to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) when its website went offline around 3 am ET.
The attack was soon followed by other airports returning database connection errors, including Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD), Orlando International Airport (MCO), Denver International Airport (DIA), Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX), along with some in Kentucky, Mississippi, and Hawaii.
According to the ABC News report, the targeted systems did not handle transportation security, air traffic control, or internal airline communications and coordination. The attack has left public-facing web domains inaccessible, resulting in congestion and extended airport wait.
The group that hacked the airport websites identified itself as Killnet. They posted a list of major US airport websites on its Telegram account, telling its 91,000 subscribers, "The list below is for you!!”
They are relying on custom software to generate fake requests and garbage traffic directed at the targets to deplete their resources and make them unavailable to legitimate users.
Killnet has previously targeted countries that sided with Ukraine, like Romania and Italy. Although the hackers are known to be politically motivated and support Russia, their actual ties to Moscow are unknown.
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