Killnet claims cyberattack on Lufthansa was retaliation for Germany’s support in Ukraine
Pro-Russian hacker group Killnet claimed responsibility for the IT failure of German carrier Lufthansa, adding that following a “rat experiment,” it now knows how to stop navigation of any airport in the world.
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Pro-Russian hacker group Killnet claimed responsibility for the IT failure of German carrier Lufthansa, adding that following a “rat experiment,” it now knows how to stop navigation of any airport in the world.
Germany's flagship carrier Lufthansa experienced a severe IT fault on Wednesday, leaving thousands of passengers stranded. The company initially attributed the incident to the damage caused to several of Deutsche Telekom's glass-fiber cables during construction work in Frankfurt.
However, it now seems that the failure could have been a result of a planned cyberattack. The alleged leader of the hacking group KillMilk announced their affiliation with the attack to the Russian website Gazeta.ru, which belongs to the state-owned company Sberbank.
“We killed the Lufthansa employee corps network with 3 million requests per second of fat data packets.
These were experiments on rats that were successful.
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Now we know how to stop any navigation and technical equipment of any airport in the world.
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Three more major airports experienced disruptions on Thursday, including Dusseldorf, Nuremberg, and Dortmund. The reason for the failure remains unclear. However, a spokesperson for Dortmund airport attributed the incident to a likely hacker attack.
According to reports, a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack might have caused the failure.
Killnet has recently been rather active, disrupting communication between NATO and military aircraft supplying aid to victims of the deadly Turkey-Syria earthquake.
Killnet commonly opts for DDoS attacks to target victims. As such, they have already struck Lithuania, a NATO member bordering Russia, as a way of intimidating one of the most notorious European opposers of the Kremlin’s aggression in Ukraine. Similarly, they targeted Estonia in what was named the largest attack since 2007.