A group of Russian-speaking hackers on Wednesday took responsibility for a denial-of-service attack targeting state government websites, with several states experiencing brief or lengthy outages.
The group, which calls itself Killnet, appears to have temporarily disabled websites run by the governments of Colorado, Connecticut, Kentucky, Mississippi and Missouri. Images being shared on the group’s Telegram channel show a target list including sites run by dozens of U.S. state governments. Most of the sites affected Wednesday appeared to be stable Thursday morning, though Colorado’s main website is still replaced by a temporary site as officials work to restore access. The temporary site contains links to Colorado’s other digital services, which were not affected by the DDoS campaign.
