Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2022-04-16 00:00:00
Affected organization: Gatwick Airport
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Transportation and Warehousing
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Services
Motive: Protest
Actor: Killnet
Actor type: Hacktivist
Actor country: Russian Federation
Description: Killnet claims to have conducted a DDoS attack against the official website of an airport in the United Kingdom as part of a larger campaign against countries supporting Ukraine.