Bristol Airport Archives - Hack Ware News https://hackwarenews.com/tag/bristol-airport/ News, ethical hacking, cyber crime, network security Mon, 08 Oct 2018 15:06:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Bristol Airport Targeted By Ransomware Attack https://hackwarenews.com/bristol-airport-targeted-by-ransomware-attack/ https://hackwarenews.com/bristol-airport-targeted-by-ransomware-attack/#respond Tue, 18 Sep 2018 14:21:27 +0000 https://hackwarenews.com/?p=5041 Bristol Airport Targeted By Ransomware Attack. Over the weekend, a ransomware attack brought down Bristol Airport’s display screens, leading to confusion amongst its customers who could no longer see the live updates on flight data. The blackout across information screens lasted for two days, as security experts fought to bring the data back to the […]

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]]> Bristol Airport Targeted By Ransomware Attack. Over the weekend, a ransomware attack brought down Bristol Airport’s display screens, leading to confusion amongst its customers who could no longer see the live updates on flight data. The blackout across information screens lasted for two days, as security experts fought to bring the data back to the flight displays throughout the airport.

 

The attack and its impacts

 

The attack itself began on Friday morning, when several computers were compromised in the airport network. These included display screens which were normally used to broadcast details about flight arrivals and departures to passengers, employees and others.

 

A post from the Bristol Airport’s official Twitter feed claimed,

We are currently experiencing technical problems with our flight information screens. Flights are unaffected and details of check-in desks, boarding gates, and arrival/departure times will be made over the public address system. Additional staff are on hand to assist passengers.

In response, Bristol Airport officials and staff had to resort to using whiteboards and paper posters to share check-in and arrival information, as well as luggage pickup points for all incoming flights. While this was not the most practical experience, it certainly entertained a few individuals who shared photos of this endeavor on Twitter.

 

Overall, the two days of technical compromise had inevitable effects on the airport staff and customers. There were significant delays in baggage handling, with some customers having to wait over an hour to collect their bags after their flights. Fortunately however, there were no flight delays resulting from the attack.

 

Refusing to pay the ransom

According to a Bristol Airport spokesman, the information screens went offline as a result of a “ransomware” attack. However, they refused to pay any ransom to anybody, and instead opted to take the entire system offline while they worked to restore it, successfully bringing everything back online on Sunday morning.

 

So far it’s unclear as to how the ransomware penetrated the airport systems, but Bristol Airport is currently undertaking a thorough investigation to try and learn exactly what happened, and how to prevent something similar from happening again in the future.

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