German airport websites hit by suspected cyberattack

I'll give you 3 guesses for the culprits.

lemme guess... cyber-attacks and espionage are very common practices by China!

lemme guess... cyber-attacks and espionage are very common practices by China!

That's 1, though I wouldn't make China likely on this specific list. Which countries are known for cyber attacks AND are unhappy with Germany? .... I'd look first at Rus..., Bel... , and perhaps a few middle eastern countries before China.

I'm not saying that China isn't actively working the espionage angle in Germany, but if you DDoS, it's hard to infiltrate over the network.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/17/german_airport_websites_ddos/ says it was Russian attackers, as predicted.

Airports in Düsseldorf, Hanover, Dortmund, Erfurt, Nuremberg and Baden-Baden were affected by the bot-traffic tsunami, according to Spiegel, which reported that a "Russian hacktivist group" took credit for the attacks. The outages only lasted about an hour.