Security News > 2023 > April > European air traffic control confirms website 'under attack' by pro-Russia hackers

Eurocontrol confirmed on Friday its website has been "Under attack" since April 19, and said "Pro-Russian hackers" had claimed responsibility for the disruption.

"The attack is causing interruptions to the website and web availability," a spokesperson told The Register.

The Eurocontrol spokesperson declined to answer The Register's specific questions about the incident, including which systems had been affected, when the organization expected to be fully back online, and whether Killnet was the responsible for the apparent distributed-denial-of-service attacks, as the pro-Kremlin crew claimed on its Russian-language Telegram channel.

The Wall Street Journal first reported the Eurocontrol website woes, citing a "Senior official familiar with the situation," who said that air-traffic safety wasn't at risk.

Last October, Killnet claimed responsibility for knocking more than a dozen US airports' websites offline in a large-scale DDoS attack.

Most recently this included a DDoS attack that shut down nine Danish hospitals' websites for a few hours in February, but did not have any life-threatening impact on the medical centers' operations or digital infrastructure.

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