Security News > 2023 > February > 'Russian hacktivists' brag of flooding German airport sites

A series of distributed denial-of-service attacks shut down seven German airports' websites on Thursday, a day after a major IT glitch at Lufthansa grounded flights.

Ralph Beisel, the general manager of Germany's ADV airport association, confirmed the network-flooding events in an emailed statement to The Register, but did not specify which airports were hit.

"Again today the airports fell victim to large-scale DDoS attacks," Beisel said, adding that the DDoS flood rendered the seven airports' websites temporarily unavailable.

In late January, a group calling itself "Anonymous Russia" claimed to have DDoS'd websites belonging to several German airports.

The large-scale DDoS attack didn't disrupt air travel or cause any operational harm to the airports.

These DDoS attacks weren't linked to KillNet, according to Cloudflare, which blamed the weekend incidents on unknown attackers.

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