Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2023-02-01 00:00:00
Affected organization: Scandinavian Airlines (SAS)
Affected country: Denmark
Industry: Transportation and Warehousing
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service
Motive: Protest
Actor: Anonymous Sudan
Actor type: Hacktivist
Actor country: Russian Federation
Description: The pro-Russian group "Anonymous Sudan" makes an unexpected demand of $3 million from Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) in order to halt distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) that have been targeting the airline's websites since February.