A hacktvist group with ties to the Russian authorities has claimed credit score for cyberattacks on the federal government web sites of three US states: Colorado, Kentucky, and Mississippi.
The websites for Mississippi and Kentucky had been functioning Thursday, following the Russian cyberattacks, whereas the Colorado State Official Net Portal was displaying a message that the “homepage is presently offline,” earlier within the day. By Thursday afternoon, the homepage appeared again on-line.
Reviews of the compromise of state authorities techniques by the so-called Killnet hacktivist group is especially alarming in gentle of upcoming November US midterm elections, which depend on particular person states to manage voting.
“Within the case of those state authorities web sites, the disruption of service, whereas inconvenient, is much much less of an issue than a knowledge breach involving the theft of personally identifiable data,” Erich Kron, safety consciousness advocate with KnowBe4, mentioned in an emailed assertion in response to information of the cyberattack. “Whether or not it is the defacement of internet sites, or taking them offline with assaults equivalent to distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) assaults, it does erode public belief within the organizations that these web sites signify.”
