US airport web sites hit by suspected pro-Russian cyberattacks | World News

The web sites for quite a lot of main US airports had been briefly knocked offline Monday after a cyberattack promoted by a pro-Russian hacking group.

The disruptions affected airport web sites in cities similar to Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix and St Louis, and had been carried out by way of distributed denial of service (DDoS) assaults, which contain taking an internet site offline by flooding it with site visitors.

The airport web sites had been focused after the pro-Russian hacking group generally known as "KillNet" printed a listing of web sites and inspired its followers to assault them.

The DDoS assaults solely affected the public-facing web sites of the airports, which provide flight and providers info and would not have any influence on operations.

Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson Airport mentioned its web site is "up and operating after an incident early this morning that made it inaccessible to the general public."

"An investigation into the reason for the incident is underway," it mentioned. "At no time had been operations on the airport impacted."

Many of the airport web sites focused gave the impression to be functioning usually after being quickly shut down.

KillNet claimed duty final week for assaults on quite a lot of US state authorities web sites, and it has taken goal at different nations opposing Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Safety Company (CISA) mentioned it was "conscious of stories of DDoS assaults focusing on a number of US airport web sites."

"We're coordinating with probably impacted entities and providing help as wanted," a CISA spokesperson mentioned.