Pro-Iran hackers claim United Airlines outage

Pro-Iran hackers claimed responsibility for a United Airlines website outage Wednesday night that left users reporting an inability to log in, check in or change flights.

“The Islamic Cyber ​​Resistance in Iraq – 313 Team launched a sophisticated cyberattack targeting the critical infrastructure of United Airlines, one of the largest airlines in the United States and the world,” the group posted on its Telegram channel at 9:23 p.m. EST. “The attack completely paralyzed the airline’s internal systems and disabled its entire login interface.”

The hackers said they continued the attack for 30 minutes. User reports of trouble at Downdetector peaked at 8:55 p.m. and 10:10 p.m., with reports trickling off in the early morning hours.

“Our Technology teams are aware of the issue and are actively working to resolve it as quickly as possible,” the United Airlines X account posted at 11:22 p.m. in response to a customer reporting that she received error messages when trying to login via app or desktop.

On Sunday, 313 Team said it targeted the Airbnb website, which reflected an “access denied” message at one point. The group said in a Telegram post that it intended to disable Airbnb’s site for an hour.

Since the U.S. and Israel first attacked Iran in February, 313 Team has claimed to have hit various companies including Bluesky, eBay, Spotify, Microsoft, X and more with DDoS attacks.

313 Team claimed late last month to have conducted “a sophisticated cyberattack targeting the U.S. National Weather Service” that “caused intermittent outages and slowed down the website’s operations” and said they were behind the outage of an incident response platform that alerts residents and response teams during disasters, attacks, public health emergencies and more.

On July 12, 313 Team claimed on their Telegram channel that they were behind a Navy Federal Credit Union app outage. The previous day, the hackers claimed to have disrupted the ABC News website.

Last week, the group said they targeted the n8n workflow automation platform and “completely disabled the login interface.”

Since then, 313 Team claimed to have targeted Nafath, the national digital identity platform in Saudi Arabia, and then turned its attention to the Saudi Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development’s Qiwa workforce management platform in what they said was a multi-day attack. “We want to reaffirm our unwavering support for the Republic of Yemen and the Ansar Allah movement in breaking the unjust blockade imposed by the illegitimate Saudi regime on the dear Yemeni people,” the group said Friday.