US airport websites knocked offline by hackers
More than a dozen US airport websites were down on Monday following a cyberattack reportedly carried out by the hacking group "Killnet," according to news reports.
The US media alleged that the hackers were speaking Russian. The hackers targeted the airport websites of several major US cities including Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix and St Louis on Monday.
“ATL’s website (atl.com) is up and running after an incident early this morning that made it inaccessible to the public,” the Atlanta airport said in a tweet.
“An investigation into the cause of the incident is underway. At no time were operations at the airport impacted.”
A distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack involves knocking a website offline by flooding it with traffic, AFP reported.
The airport websites were targeted after "KillNet" published a list of sites and encouraged its followers to attack them.
The hacking group posted on Telegram a list of state websites it planned to target with service disruptions. The list also included government pages from Florida, Alabama, Delaware and Hawaii, among other states.
The group also posted a photo on the channel captioned in English with “USA OFFLINE” and “F— NATO” over a graphic of a nuclear explosion surrounding the Statue of Liberty.
Killnet has also claimed responsibility for launching cyberattacks against NATO member countries including Estonia and Lithuania.
The DDOS attacks only affected the public-facing websites of the airports, which supply flight and services information and do not have any impact on operations.
Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson Airport said its website is "up and running after an incident early this morning that made it inaccessible to the public."
"An investigation into the cause of the incident is underway," it said. "At no time were operations at the airport impacted."
Most of the airport websites targeted appeared to be functioning normally after being temporarily knocked offline.
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