US airport websites knocked offline by Russian-speaking hackers

Pro-Russian hackers claim responsibility for knocking U.S. airport websites offline

A pro-Russian hacker group is taking credit for temporarily taking down several U.S. airport websites on Monday, though there appeared to be no impact on flight operations.The cyberattacks claimed by Killnet impacted the websites for Los Angeles International, Chicago O'Hare, and Hartsfield-Jackson International in Atlanta, among others.The group posted a list of airports on Telegram, urging hackers to participate in what's known as a DDoS atta…

US airport websites knocked offline by pro-Russia hackers

A pro-Russian group is claiming credit for a series of disruptions that temporarily knocked the websites of some US airports offline. Read full story

Some airport websites go offline; cause being investigated

The websites for some major U.S. airports went down early Monday in an apparent coordinated denial-of-service attack, although officials said flights were not affected.The attacks followed a call by a shadowy group of pro-Russian hackers that calls itself Killnet for coordinated denial-of-service attacks on the targets. The group published a target list on its Telegram channel.Security experts said that this type of attack is highly visible but …

U.S. airport websites knocked offline in apparent pro-Russia hacking attack

The websites for some major U.S. airports appear to be recovering after being knocked offline by hackers.

Russian hackers take down 14 U.S. airport websites, including Springs, Denver

Russian hackers claimed responsibility for taking down the websites of more than a dozen U.S. airports, including Denver International among some of the nation's largest.

Denial-of-service attacks knock US airport websites offline

An apparently coordinated denial-of-service attack organized by pro-Russia hackers rendered the websites of some major U.S. airports unreachable early Monday, though officials said flights were not affected.The attacks — in which participants flood targets with junk data — were orchestrated by a shadowy group that calls itself Killnet. On the eve of the attacks the group published a target list on its Telegram channel.While highly visible and ai…