US: Websites of major airports hit by suspected pro-Russian cyberattacks
Number of major airports in the US briefly took their websites offline on Monday (October 10) after a cyberattack suspected to have been promoted by pro-Russian hacker groups.
The distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks hit the airport websites of several major US cities including Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix and St Louis.
Such a cyberattack involves flooding a website with traffic and knocking it offline.
The airport websites were targeted after the pro-Russian hacking group known as "KillNet" published a list of sites and encouraged its followers to attack them.
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.
Most of the airport websites targeted appeared to be functioning normally after being temporarily knocked offline.
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."
(With inputs from agencies)
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