The German Air Traffic Control (DFS), based in Langen near Frankfurt am Main, has become the target of a hacker attack. “Our office communications have been hacked, we are currently taking defensive measures,” said a DFS spokesperson.
Attempts are being made to limit the impact to a minimum. Air traffic is not affected and is continuing as normal.
Hacker attack already last week
According to DFS, the Hacker-Attack took place last week. It is not yet known whether data could be accessed. The security authorities have been informed, explained the DFS spokesman.
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The DFS’s top priority is to ensure the safety of air traffic over Germany.
In 2015, the German Bundestag was hit by a serious cyber attack in which the parliament’s internal data network was infiltrated.
It is still suspected that a hacker collective from the Russian military intelligence service GRU (“Fancy Bear” and “APT28”) was behind this attack nine years ago. It is still unclear who could be responsible for the cyberattack on the DFS.
In the spring of last year, there were various hacker attacks on the homepages of the airports in Munich, Düsseldorf, Dortmund and Nuremberg. Fortunately, these also had no direct impact on air traffic.
