Killnet gloats about DDoS attacks downing Starlink, White House

Killnet and its band of hacker collaborators are claiming they were able to pull off a trio of symbolic distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks aimed at punishing some of the most critical supporters of Ukraine against the Russian invasion — Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite broadband service and the websites of the White House in the US and the Prince of Wales in the UK.

Researchers at Trustwave were able to find evidence corroborating the Russian-backed threat group’s claims.

Killnet claimed it took down Starlink service on Nov. 18, which has been critical for providing the Ukraine war effort with Internet connectivity. Indeed, Trustwave found Starlink customers on Reddit on the same day complaining they couldn’t log in to their accounts for several hours.

“You’ve been waiting for this comrades,” Killnet posted on Telegram, according to Trustwave. “Collective DDoS attack on Starlink! No one can log into Starlink.”

Other threat groups, and known past Killnet collaborators, also claimed they were involved in the Starlink and other DDoS takedowns, including Anonymous Russian, Msidstress, Radis, Mrai, and Halva.

White House, Prince of Wales’ Websites Targeted

Besides Starlink, Killnet also bragged that it was able to successfully run “30 minutes of a test attack” on the White House’s website on Nov. 17.

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