A person dressed as an internet hacker is seen with binary code displayed on a laptop screen in this double exposure illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on August 17, 2021. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
  • The Russian hackers group Killnet took responsibility for a wave of cyber attacks that took dozens of state government websites offline through denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Killnet recently took credit for temporarily taking down websites of multiple U.S. airports.