Hackers believed to have their headquarters in On Monday, around 14 websites that were visible to the public from US airports were temporarily taken offline. The LaGuardia, O’Hare and LAX websites were among those targeted, and most are back online. According to a senior US government official, air traffic control and internal airport communications were not affected. However, travelers who needed information or security wait times may have been delayed. . LAX spokesperson said that no internal airport systems were compromised, and that there were not any operational disruptions.
“On Monday 10 October 2022, at around. A denial of service occurred at 0300 hours that caused intermittent delays in accessing the LaGuardia Airport website. ABC News. “The Port Authority’s cybersecurity defense systems did their job quickly by detecting the issue and responding in less than 15 minutes. This enabled us to notify federal authorities immediately. The incident had no impact on any Port Authority facilities.”
Distributed denial-of-service (DDS) is suspected to have led to the incident.DDoSThe pro-Russian hacker group Killnet was pinned to the (attacks). However, the hackers are not believed by government actors. A cybersecurity analyst stated that there is no evidence that Russia was involved in the incident.
The situation is being monitored by both the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Transportation Security Administration. reports. CISA stated that it doesn’t worry about disruptions to airport operations.
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