Pro-Russian Hackers Knock At Least Three Major U.S. Airports Offline
Killnet, a pro-Russian hacker group, is taking credit for temporarily taking down websites for Los Angeles International, Chicago O'Hare and Hartsfield-Jackson International in Atlanta, while also urging hackers to participate in a concerted attack on other airports across the country.
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Killnet, a pro-Russian hacker group, is taking credit for temporarily taking down websites for Los Angeles International, Chicago O’Hare and Hartsfield-Jackson International in Atlanta, and others, while also urging hackers to participate in a concerted attack on other airports across the country, reports Vanessa Romo for NPR. It was not immediately clear how many of the airports, which included those in roughly 23 states, were actually hit and whether all victims’ sites suffered any disruptions.
There appeared to be no impact on flight operations in any of the airports, though it remains unclear how many were actually hit and whether all victims’ sites suffered any disruptions. Killnet noted other vulnerable U.S. sites that could succumb to similar strikes, known as a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) caused when a computer network is flooded by simultaneous data transmissions include sea terminals and logistics facilities, weather monitoring centers, health care systems, subway systems, and exchanges and online trading systems.
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