German airports hit by DDoS attack, ‘Anonymous Russia’ claims responsibility

It’s been a difficult week for German airlines.  A day after a major IT failure at Lufthansa left thousands of passengers stranded, the websites of seven airports were hit by a suspected cyberattack. Among the airports affected by a “large-scale DDoS [distributed denial-of-service] attack” on Thursday were Dusseldorf, Nuremberg, Erfurt-Weimar and Dortmund, according to Ralph […]

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