Trump says U.S. air traffic control system malfunction is unrelated to cyberattack

According to a report by Fox News on the 13th, U.S. President Trump said in an interview with the outlet that day that the air traffic control system failure was not related to a cyberattack or artificial intelligence, but was caused by aging, damaged infrastructure. The report quoted Trump as saying, "It doesn't look like a cyberattack or AI or anything like that... nobody's come forward. If somebody really launched such a large-scale cyberattack on critical infrastructure, usually somebody would come forward." Trump also said that relevant parties investigated the possibility of a cyberattack at the first opportunity but found no related signs. According to other U.S. media reports, the dedicated communications network of the U.S. air traffic control system triggered a system restart during an update and then crashed, causing communications interruptions. The system is operated by a company called L3Harris.