The cause of prolonged failures in the IT systems of one of the largest air carriers, the Lufthansa Group, was the DDoS attack by the Russian hacker KillNet. This was reported to socialbites.ca by the leader of the KillMilk group.
“We killed the corporate network of Lufthansa employees with 3 million requests for big data packets per second. It was a successful experiment on mice. “Now we know how to stop any airport in the world from working,” he said.
KillMilk alleges that it attacked the German Lufthansa Group in response to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s decision to hand over Leopard tanks to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
“Who else wants to supply weapons to Ukraine?” Wrote KillMilk.
Lufthansa Group is Europe’s largest aviation company, registered in Germany. It includes a number of airlines such as Swiss International Airlines, Austrian Airlines, and more. Happy February 15 Lufthansa Group
With data The New York Times wrote that the reason for the outage in the Lufthansa Group network was the damage to the cables of the Deutsche Telekom provider during construction work in Frankfurt.
Formerly socialbites.ca Wrote CloudFlare recorded the strongest DDoS attack in history with a capacity of 71 million requests per second.