Russian KillNet group claimed DDoS attacks on FBI websites

The Russian KillNet hacking group has claimed responsibility for the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the websites owned by the FBI. Researchers classified these incidents as nuisance campaigns launched by the threat actors to the impenetrable government entity.

Based on reports, the KillNet gang is a low-level collective of malicious Russian threat actors who transitioned to hacktivism to respond to countries that oppose their country’s plan for Ukraine. The group is Russia’s answer to numerous hacktivists supporting Ukraine during this geopolitical crisis.

 

The Russian KillNet gang attempted to disrupt FBI-related transactions by posting that they had made its websites unavailable to visitors.

 

Researchers spotted that the Russian KillNet group posted on its Telegram channel that they have links to show that the federal law enforcement’s portal is unavailable. Another group called Radis also claimed that the links that offer connection errors to an FBI portal for law enforcement resources are affected by a DDoS attack.

However, the FBI has a LEEP platform that could provide web-based investigative tools and analytical resources to United States law enforcement agencies and intel groups.

The agency also revealed earlier this month that they fully know the Russian group’s activities that employ DDoS attacks to target critical infrastructures. The agency also announced that its campaigns are mostly failures and do not have severe impacts.

Currently, the KillNet threat group is one of the few Russian cybercriminal groups that openly dedicate their support to the Russian government and its plans. KillNet has now become a subgroup under the Kremlin-aligned hacktivist groups.

Since the start of the geopolitical crisis between Russia and Ukraine, the KillNet heads have constantly recruited to gather more volunteers. After recruitment, most ringleaders organise the recruits into different subgroups, such as Rayd, Kratos, and Zarya, to execute Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks against western countries that threaten their plans for Ukraine.

The most recent DDoS attacks from the group have been against several major United States airports and American state governments.