January 23, 2024
Irish aircraft leasing giant AerCap is investigating a cybersecurity attack on its systems, but says that it suffered no financial loss as result of the hack.
Claims surfaced online at the weekend that an organisation had hacked the Dublin-headquartered multinational’s systems and planned to leak data within days. AerCap confirmed that on January 17th it experienced ... January 9, 2024
Cybercriminals attacked Kenya Airways’ (KQ) information systems and obtained sensitive information, including contact details and identification documents, of passengers and staff of the airline, an authoritative source at KQ has confirmed.
The cyber attack, which occurred late last month, led to unauthorised access to police investigation reports, phone numbers, email addresses, and passports of an unspecified ... December 27, 2023
Albania’s Parliament said on Tuesday that it had suffered a cyberattack with hackers trying to get into its data system, resulting in a temporary halt in its services.
A statement said Monday’s cyberattack had not “touched the data of the system,” adding that experts were working to discover what consequences the attack could have. It said ... December 21, 2023
Ryanair has claimed that internet travel giant Booking.com is partly responsible for a recent “malicious attack” on the airline’s payment processing platform.
Lawyers for Booking.com had described the allegation of a cyber-attack as “baseless” and “far-fetched”. “The allegations are baseless and refuted by Booking Holdings and Booking.com,” added a spokesperson for the group.
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December 18, 2023
A large amount of personal data belonging to airline passengers who flew on KLM and Air France was not properly secured, and was somewhat readily available for theft, according to NOS and information technology security researcher Benjamin Broersma.
The security hole was fixed soon after the broadcaster contacted the Dutch airline. It was not immediately clear ... December 5, 2023
Starting in March 2023, Proofpoint researchers have observed the Russian advanced persistent threat (APT) TA422 readily use patched vulnerabilities to target a variety of organizations in Europe and North America.
TA422 overlaps with the aliases APT28, Forest Blizzard, Pawn Storm, Fancy Bear, and BlueDelta, and is attributed by the United States Intelligence Community to the Russian ... November 30, 2023
BlackBerry has uncovered a previously unknown threat actor targeting an aerospace organization in the United States, with the apparent goal of conducting commercial and competitive cyber espionage.
The BlackBerry Threat Research and Intelligence team is tracking this threat actor as AeroBlade. The actor used spear-phishing as a delivery mechanism: A weaponized document, sent as an email ... November 29, 2023
Japan’s space agency was likely hit by an unauthorized access attack to a network server, the government said Wednesday, adding the incident did not involve sensitive information pertaining to rockets or satellites.
Sources close to the matter said the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency was not aware that the breach may have occurred sometime during the summer ... November 27, 2023
A hacker with the alias IntelBroker claims to have breached General Electric and stolen plenty of sensitive data from the company’s systems.
The company operates in different fields, including aerospace, renewable energy, power, venture capital, and more. The hacker posted a new thread on an underground forum, selling access to the company’s “development and software pipelines” ... November 27, 2023
Gulf Air, the national air carrier for the Kingdom of Bahrain, has confirmed suffering a data breach which most likely resulted in hackers stealing sensitive customer information.
The company confirmed the news via a press release shared with local media highlighting a “data breach incident” on November 24, possibly resulting in the compromise of “some information ... November 24, 2023
As simulated attackers tried to overload an electrical system, cripple a water distribution network and shut down a gas plant, cyber defence operators across 26 national agencies sprung into action to neutralise the assaults on a fictional state’s critical infrastructure.
These were among the scenarios that more than 200 participants went through from Nov 22 to ... November 21, 2023
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), and Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Center (ASD’s ACSC) are releasing this joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to disseminate IOCs, TTPs, and detection methods associated with LockBit 3.0 ransomware exploiting CVE-2023-4966, labeled Citrix Bleed, affecting Citrix ... November 11, 2023
Stolen data from American aircraft manufacturer Boeing has been released online by the cybercrime gang, Lockbit, according to the group’s website.
Boeing confirmed a cybersecurity incident involving elements of its parts and distribution business. “We are aware that, in connection with this incident, a criminal ransomware actor has released information it alleges to have taken from ... November 4, 2023
On October 30, APA experienced a cybersecurity incident referred to by the union as a ransomware attack.
In a statement, the Allied Pilots Association explained, “Upon discovery of the incident, we immediately took steps to secure our networks. Our IT team, with the support of outside experts, continues to work nonstop to restore our systems.” This ... November 3, 2023
Latest innovative solutions for the defence, aviation and aerospace industries display their strength in the new world order at the SAH EXPO 2024.
SAHA EXPO Defence & Aerospace Exhibition, the largest industrial cluster of Türkiye and Europe with nearly 1.000 companies and 26 universities, organized by SAHA Istanbul. It will be a platform where the game-changing ... November 2, 2023
Aerospace giant Boeing has confirmed that it is dealing with a “cyber incident,” days after the company was listed on the leak site of the LockBit ransomware gang. In a statement given to TechCrunch, Boeing spokesperson Jim Prolux confirmed that attackers had targeted “elements of our parts and safety business.”
The spokesperson added: “This issue does ... October 8, 2023
India’s space agency Isro is facing more than 100 cyber-hacking attempts on a daily basis, disclosed its chairman S Somanath on Sunday. Speaking to TOI, Somanath said, “It is not only Isro, but several other systems (of other organisations) that face hundreds of cyber (hacking) attempts. But such attempts have been stopped by our several ... September 28, 2023
Russian state conglomerate Rostec said on Thursday it had restored normal operations at its Leonardo air booking system following what it called a “massive cyberattack from abroad”. “The cyberattack has been successfully repelled,” Rostec said in a statement.
It described the incident as a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attack”, in which the attacker floods a server with ... September 23, 2023
Ukrainian hackers have hacked into the Russian database of the Sirena-Travel booking system, obtaining information on 664 million flights over the last 16 years. They also obtained the names, phone numbers and document numbers of the passengers.
News of this was posted on the Telegram channel of the hacker community KibOrg. An unknown group called Muppets, ... September 22, 2023
Air Canada appears to have been the victim of a cyber attack after the company released a statement regarding the incident on September 21st.
According to the statement, an authorized group gained what the company describes as “limited” access to an internal Air Canada system. The system was related to the personal information of both staff ...