Killnet, a hacking group, listed 14 websites, including LAX and Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, among the U.S. airports that it was targeting, according to reports.
An LAX spokesperson didn’t specify a cause for the disruption or whether it was related to Killnet. A TSA spokesperson referred questions to LAX.
Killnet previously released a video supporting Russia and claimed credit for implementing a DDoS attack, a “distributed denial of service” attack in which servers are flooded with web traffic to knock sites offline, against a U.S. airport in March in retaliation for U.S. support forIf you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation.
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