The websites of seven German airports were hit by a suspected cyber-attack on Thursday. The incident occurred a day after a major IT failure at Germany’s national carrier Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) left thousands of passengers stranded.
Among the airports affected were Dusseldorf, Nuremberg, Dortmund, Hannover, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden and Erfurt-Weimar. But websites for Germany’s biggest airports in Frankfurt, Munich and Berlin were operating normally.
The websites of these German airports were unreachable on Thursday and experts launched an investigation speculating a possible cyberattack on a large scale against the critical infrastructure. The outages only lasted about an hour.
Ralph Beisel, chief executive of the ADV airport association, confirmed that the websites were hit by a DDoS attack. However, other systems at the airports were not impacted.
Administrators at the airport confirmed that the problems were likely caused by malicious traffic. The DDoS attacks follow a series of IT incidents affecting Germany’s aviation industry over the last few weeks.
In early January, the Pro-Russia group Killnet launched DDoS attacks against the websites of German airports, administration bodies, and banks.
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