United States. The websites of some of the most important international airports in the United States, presented failures due to cyberattacks of the pro-Russian group KillNet, last Monday, October 10 in the morning hours.
Specifically, the websites of Los Angeles International Airports (ALX), Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Airport (ATL), Des Moines Airport (DSM), Denver Airport (DIA), Orlando Airport (MCO), Chicago O'Hare Airport (ORD), Phoenix Sky Harbor (PHX), as well as others located in the states of Hawaii, Kentucky and Mississippi were affected.
Different media claim that the person responsible would be located in Russia, while the website bleepingcomputer.com points more clearly to the KillNte group as responsible, this due to its publications of the Telegram network, where it had precisely listed these air terminals as targets on the same day of the attacks.
ABC News reported that "a senior official briefed on the situation" called the act inconvenient. The outlet also added that the attacks have resulted in making it difficult to report schedule changes and wait times.
Likewise, the media commented that the official spokesman of the Denver International Airport, the third busiest in the country, said that they suffered several attacks that same day.
For its part, hartsfield-Jackson International Airport communicated through its official Twitter account that there were no effects on operations and that its website had returned to work.
Typology of the cyberattack
For these cases the attack was of the DDoS type, which consists of saturating a website with "junk" requests to overload and prevent the normal functioning of the servers.
Finally, although the cyberattack did not affect the flight itinerary, its effect was the sabotage of normal access to customers, interrupting normal access to web pages, for the purpose of confirming reservations, Check-in and others. Issue that elevates complaints and disrupts service scheduling
