The Federal Aviation Administration’s website as among those targeted in this week’s cyberattack on major U.S. government departments and agencies.
The attack involved thousands of computers worldwide infected with malicious software that instructed them to repeatedly try to access the targeted sites, a tactic designed to render the targeted sites inaccessible to legitimate users, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.
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