By sampay Photograph: The Canadian Press
FILE – Vacationers stroll by Terminal 1 at O’Hare Worldwide Airport in Chicago, on Dec. 30, 2021. The web sites for some main US airports went down early Monday, Oct. 10, 2022, in an obvious coordinated denial of service incident, though officers mentioned flights weren’t affected. (AP Photograph/Nam Y. Huh, File)
The web sites for some main US airports went down early Monday in an obvious coordinated denial-of-service assault, though officers mentioned flights weren’t affected.
The assaults adopted a name by a shadowy group of pro-Russian hackers that calls itself Killnet for coordinated denial-of-service assaults on the targets. The group revealed a goal record on its Telegram channel.
“We seen this morning that the exterior web site was down, and our IT and safety persons are within the technique of investigating,” mentioned Andrew Gobeil, a spokesman for Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Worldwide Airport. “There was no impression on operations.”
Parts of the public-facing aspect of the Los Angeles Worldwide Airport web site had been additionally disrupted, spokeswoman Victoria Spilabotte mentioned. “No inside airport methods had been compromised and there have been no operational disruptions.”
Spilabotte mentioned the airport notified the FBI and the Transportation Safety Administration, and the airport’s information-technology staff was working to revive all providers and examine the trigger.
A number of different airports reported issues connecting to their web sites and seemed to be functioning very slowly, together with Chicago’s O’Hare Worldwide Airport web site, which was included on Killnet’s goal record.
The Chicago Division of Aviation mentioned in a press release that web sites for O’Hare and Halfway Airport went offline early Monday however that no airport operations had been affected.
Final week, a bunch of hackers claimed duty for cyberattacks in opposition to state authorities web sites throughout the nation.