By Bristol Airport located in the United Kingdom was damaged some time ago by a ransomware happening that reasoned disturbance to flight details display board systems, and staff was asked to employ whiteboards and markers to update flight status.
According to Wikipedia, Bristol Airport is the ninth busiest airport in the United Kingdom with passenger traffic, communicated travellers on Friday that it had been facing technical issues with its flight schedule screens.
No flights schedules were effected, however the airport had to practice the alternate means to facilitate the passengers to keep trail of flights, containing pronouncements made over the public addressing means and employing markers to note down the flight schedule using whiteboards and pieces of paper. The flight schedule screens were regenerated in major locations in the airport terminal at local time by Sunday morning.
Bristol Airport spokesman stated that they did not think it was a aimed threat. They noticed that the flight schedule screens and relevant applications were proceeded offline as safety measures after the malware found its way onto specific administrative mechanism.
The airport spokesman stated that it did not give any ransom amount, and demanded that it took longer to carry on systems back online due to its careful way of dealing. Spokesman told that the happening did not effected at all or put a threat to any safety measures or security systems.
Ransomware reasoning disturbances at an airport is not unusual of. Previous year, the airports in Ukraine were threaten in both the NotPetya and Bad Rabbit operations, although NotPetya later became known to be a wiper malware cloaked as a piece of ransomware.
