Hackers disabled more than a dozen public airport websites in the United States

More than a dozen public websites of American airports have been attacked. The Killnet group will be the author.

Hackers believed to be based in Russia have temporarily disabled about 14 US airport public websites. The LaGuardia, O’Hare and LAX sites were among the targets, and most were back online within hours of the incident.

More than a dozen public websites of American airports were attacked

A US government spokesman also explained that air traffic control, airport intercom and other vital operations were unaffected, but travelers looking for any information were inevitably hampered by the site’s absence, according to ABC News. A spokesperson for LAX said that “there were no internal systems compromised and there were no outages.”

“On Monday, October 10, 2022, there was a denial of service at approximately 3 a.m. that lasted 15 minutes and resulted in intermittent delays in accessing the LaGuardia airport grounds,” a security guard told ABC News. Authority. “The Port Authority’s cybersecurity system did the job, quickly detecting the incident, fixing the problem within 15 minutes, and allowing us to alert others by notifying federal authorities immediately. There was no operational impact on the centers of the port administration.”

The Killnet group will be the author

The incident, believed to be the result of a denial of service (DDoS) attack, was blamed on the pro-Russian hacker group Killnet. The latter, however, will not serve the government. According to the cybersecurity analyst, there is no evidence that the Russian government was involved in this incident.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Transportation Security Administration are monitoring the situation closely, according to CNN. CISA clarified that in any case, there is no reason to worry about possible interruptions in work.