A pro-Russian political hacking group is claiming responsibility for distributed denial-of-service attacks that knocked offline the public websites of several major U.S. airports. Air travel was not affected.
The group, KillNet, also took responsibility last week for a series of DDoS attacks that temporarily disabled a handful of American state government websites.
Among the dozen airports affected by the Monday attack are Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway international airports. Both are owned by the city of Chicago and share the web domain of flychicago.com.
A KillNet Telegram channel earlier posted a “list containing more than two dozen targets. Other airports experiencing some difficulty today with public-facing websites include Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Los Angeles International Airport and Denver International Airport.
