Pro-Russian Hacking Group Killnet Attacks Romanian Websites

Romanian government websites and other institutions were the target of a cyberattack Friday morning that the nation’s intelligence agency attributed to a pro-Russian hacking unit.

The hacker group known as Killnet claimed credit for so-called distributed denial-of-service attack, which began at around 4 a.m. local time, the Romanian Intelligence Service said in a statement. Such attacks attempt to overload systems by flooding the target with superfluous requests from multiple sources.