Pro-Russia hackers have claimed responsibility for a cyber attack that crashed the British royal family's website over the weekend.
The website, royal.uk, went down for over an hour on Sunday morning due to a denial-of-service attack, a tactic for overwhelming a machine or network to make it unavailable, a royal source told ABC News.
Killnet has been active since at least 2022, around the time that Russia launched an invasion of neighboring Ukraine. The group has become known for its distributed denial-of-service attacks against countries supporting Ukraine in the ongoing war, especially NATO members, according to anreleased earlier this year by the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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