European airports work to fix check-in after cyber hack
Hackers, RTX’s owned by the Collins Aerospace, and after days of duzine flights and automatic check-in systems that affect thousands of passengers, many of the largest airports are still facing deductions.
The EU’s Cyber Security Agency caused a cyber attack on Friday and stressed the increasing risks of such attacks to critical infrastructure and industries.
Enisa said in a statement on Monday without giving details about where the cyber attack was caused, and that the law enforcement officers were involved in investigation.
Governments and companies have been the targets of cyber attacks in recent months, including luxury car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover, who had to pause production as a result.
Collins said that Europe is working with the most intense airport Brussels and London Heathrow, including affected airports, and is in the final stages of completing updates to help recover full functionality.
Berlin Airport, which faces higher number of passengers than usual on Monday due to the Berlin Marathon, is still not restored to check-in systems and reported more than one hour of delays for departures.
A passenger described the boarding process as similar to the first years of handwriting boarding passes and the first years of commercial air travel.
The Brussels Airport used iPads and laptops to control online passengers. He said that 60 of approximately 550 departure and the flight should be canceled on Monday.
Dublin airport was experiencing a “minimal effect” and there were some manual processes.
A study of 1000 companies made by the German industry group plant found that malware that locking the data until the victim pays for the restoration of access – the most common cyber attack form and one of the seven companies has paid ransom.
