Russian-speaking hackers took aim at U.S. state government websites this week, some of which suffered outages that persisted into Thursday.
Killnet, a hacking collective, published U.S. state government websites as targets in Russian messages on the tech platform Telegram alongside an image of fire erupting behind the Statue of Liberty accompanied by the captions “USA Offline” and “F*ck NATO.”
The group crashed the Colorado government’s website home page on Wednesday and it was still down Thursday.
The Colorado Governor’s Office of Information Technology said a cyberattack from an “anonymous suspected foreign actor” took the Colorado.gov homepage offline and the office pointed to reports that multiple other states experienced similar problems.