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A DDOS attack involves knocking a website offline by flooding it with traffic. (Representational)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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The websites for a number of major US airports were briefly taken offline Monday after a cyberattack promoted by a pro-Russian hacking group.<\/p>\n
The distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks hit the airport websites of several major US cities including Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix and St Louis.<\/p>\n
A DDOS attack involves knocking a website offline by flooding it with traffic.<\/p>\n
The airport websites were targeted after the pro-Russian hacking group known as “KillNet” published a list of sites and encouraged its followers to attack them.<\/p>\n
The DDOS attacks only affected the public-facing websites of the airports, which supply flight and services information and do not have any impact on operations.<\/p>\n
Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport said its website is “up and running after an incident early this morning that made it inaccessible to the public.”<\/p>\n
“An investigation into the cause of the incident is underway,” it said. “At no time were operations at the airport impacted.”<\/p>\n
Most of the airport websites targeted appeared to be functioning normally after being temporarily knocked offline.<\/p>\n
KillNet claimed responsibility last week for attacks on a number of US state government websites, and it has taken aim at other countries opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n
There was no immediate comment from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).<\/p>\n
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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