Atlanta Airport’s website hacked by Pro-Russian activists
We’ll take you outside for a live look at Atlanta’s Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, their website now back up and running today after a cyber attack knocked it offline yesterday. Today we know Pro Russian hackers were behind the attack that hit at least 13 other airports. Cyber groups tell us the hackers are targeting countries showing support for Ukraine in the war 11 lives. Hope Ford spoke with one of the groups keeping tabs on the hackers. People across the country trying to access certain airport websites on Monday, well, couldn’t for a few hours. Hackers were in control. They’ve been sort of attacking some, you know, European nations, Eastern European nations. And starting to move. West is the head of engineering for Checkpoint, a cyber threat intelligence organization. Checkpoint employs hundreds of researchers, some of which infiltrated the messaging app Telegram, where the hackers appear to coordinate and congratulate themselves. Checkpoints in US. These two screenshots from the app and one that hackers write to all who participated in the liquidation of the United States of America do not stop, and another of the hackers share a CNN article seemingly rejoicing in having their names mentioned.
They’re truly what we call a hacktivism type of group. The attack on the airport websites was a malicious disruption caused by flooding the sites with Internet traffic. The upside is these types of attacks have a quick recovery period, so they’re not out for financial gain, they’re out for. You know, political game again and to make a statement and this group appears to be a a very pro Russian group that is attacking countries that are supporting Ukraine in the current conflict. Actual airlines are flights, but rather targeted sites where customers check flight information and TSA wait times. But consumers shouldn’t worry about their personal information. It wasn’t like a breach of information like we’ve seen in many attacks where personally identifiable information was gathered. This was really just an overflow of the website expects airlines to continue to put in mitigation tools to thwart further attacks. In Atlanta, Hope Ford 11 Alive News a spokesman for Hartsfield Jackson, says IT and security are. Investigating the hack of the external website and reiterated reiterated there was no impact on airport operations.
