Russian-speaking hackers hacked the websites of major US airports

More than a dozen public airport websites, including some of the nation's largest airports, went down on the morning of October 10, with Russian-speaking hackers claiming responsibility. CNN.

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No immediate indications of an impact on actual air travel have been reported, suggesting that the issue may be a nuisance to people seeking travel information.

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“Of course we're monitoring it,” Kirsten Todt, chief of staff for the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), told a security conference in Sea Island, Georgia on October 10.

Among the 14 websites is that of the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The employee there said there were no operational impacts.

The Los Angeles International Airport website was previously down, but appears to have been restored shortly before 9 a.m. ET.

A group of hackers known as Killnet has targeted several US airports. OA stepped up its activities with target organizations in NATO countries after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February. The loosely organized "hacktivists" are politically interested in supporting the Kremlin, but their ties to Moscow are unknown.

Last week, the group claimed responsibility for taking down US state government websites. Killnet has been accused of briefly shutting down the US Congress website in July and of cyber-attacking organizations in Lithuania after the country blocked delivery of goods to Russia's Kaliningrad in June.

The type of cyberattack used by Killnet is known as "distributed denial of service" (DDoS), in which hackers flood computer servers with fake web traffic to disable them.

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“DDoS attacks are preferred by actors of varying degrees of complexity because they have visible results, but these incidents are usually superficial and short-lived,” said John Hultquist, vice president of Google-owned cybersecurity company Mandiant.

A spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration said the agency is monitoring the issue and working with the airport's partners.

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