The ministry was the target of a group of Russian-aligned pirates last month, according to a US Treasury official, who exposed the incident on Tuesday.
While he emphasised that the Ministry’s reinforcement approach to financial system cybersecurity is successful.
According to Todd Conkelin, Cyber Security Advisor to Deputy Treasury Secretary Adimo, the Treasury has linked the distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks to Killnet, a Russian hacker organisation that last October claimed responsibility for disrupting a number of American state and airport websites.
It is interesting that a top American official acknowledged last month that on October 10, electronic strikes targeted some of the country’s busiest airports.
The operation was carried out by a striker inside the Russian Federation, the insider told ABC News.
Thankfully for these airports, the systems that were attacked had nothing to do with air traffic control, airline communications and coordination, or transportation security.
However, the attacks led to the “prevention” of travelers to the websites that show waiting and crowding times at the airport.
At around 3 am EST, when the Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Agency revealed that the Laguardia airport system had been hacked but restored, airports initially reported the attacks.
However, other airports around the nation were already impacted.
The 10th of October also had an impact on the websites of the Des Moines International Airport, the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), and the Chicago O’Hare International Airport.
While Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport said at approximately 10:30 am EST time that its location is working again and that “the operations at the airport were not affected at any time. ”
According to ABC, experts and programmers are attempting to plug the holes that allowed pirates to use hackers.
This occurs as tensions between Moscow and the West, as well as between Washington and Moscow, have increased due to the Russian military activity in Ukraine and the threat of cyberattacks.
According to an official, Russian pirates targeted the American Treasury.
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