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Several U.S. airport websites were temporarily taken down due to the attack of pro-Russian hackers last Monday. According to Andrew Gobeil, spokesman for Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, on Monday morning, they noticed that the external website was down and quickly ordered their IT and security people to investigate the said attack. He also said that the attack did not impact the airport's operations.      The pro-Russian hacker group known as "Killnet" used a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack to take down the said websites temporarily. Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) is a malicious attempt where the attacker's goal is to disrupt the regular traffic of a server, service, or network. This was done by sending many requests to the target, which overloaded resources and made them unavailable.      According to some reports, the attack launched by the Killnet wasn't intended to steal information or compromise the internal system...

Many hacking groups take advantage of the war between Ukraine and Russia. There are lots of news and reports of cyber attacks around the world. But recently, there are reports that hackers were using their hacking skills to win the war against their enemies.      According to the new report of Meta, the parent company of Facebook, the hacking campaign dubbed " Ghostwriter " attempted to compromise dozens of Facebook accounts owned by Ukrainian military personnel and posted videos to the hacked accounts calling on the Ukrainian army to surrender.      The report stated that after the security update in February, the Ghostwriter operation, mostly carried out by the hacking group UNC1151 , attempted to hack many Facebook accounts. After they successfully compromise the account, the hackers will post fake Ukrainian surrender videos. But Meta quickly removed and blocked the said video from being shared by other users.      The war has been for ove...