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Pro-Russian hackers claim responsibility for taking down US airport websites

Dev Kundaliya

11 October 2022 • 3 min read

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Killnet asked hackers to flood the servers running US airport websites with junk requests

Some US airport websites were taken offline on Monday after a pro-Russian hacker group issued a call for attacks. Killnet claimed responsibility for temporarily taking US airport websites offlin...

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