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Russia’s Aeroflot airline has cancelled 49 round-trip flights to and from Moscow due to an IT system failure, the air carrier reported. The press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia said that the airline’s information systems were brought Read More …
A cyber criminal has made contact with Australia’s Qantas following a data breach last week that exposed personal information of six million customers, a company spokesperson told Reuters on Tuesday. The hacker had targeted a call centre and gained access Read More …
The FBI and cybersecurity firms are warning that the prolific hacking group known as Scattered Spider is now targeting airlines and the transportation sector. In a brief statement on Friday shared with TechCrunch, the FBI said it had “recently observed” Read More …
A data broker owned by some of America’s biggest airlines has been selling access to customer flight data to the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The data, compiled by data broker Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), includes names, flight itineraries, Read More …
Hackers defaced one of the websites of the airline at the center of President Donald Trump’s campaign of deportations to an offshore detention center in El Salvador, a Reuters viewing of the site showed on Monday. A message posted to Read More …
Operations at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) were not affected by a cyber attack by hackers who demanded US$10 million (S$13.4 million). In a joint statement on March 25, the National Cyber Security Agency (Nacsa) and Malaysia Airports Holdings Read More …
UN aviation agency ‘investigating’ security breach after hacker claims theft of personal data The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a United Nations agency that defines international operating standards for civil aviation, has confirmed it’s investigating a cybersecurity incident. In a Read More …
Hackers targeted around ten official websites in Italy on Saturday, including the websites of the Foreign Ministry and Milan’s two airports, putting them out of action temporarily, the country’s cyber security agency said. The pro-Russian hacker group Noname057(16) claimed the Read More …
Japan Airlines announced on Dec. 26 that its computer network was hit by a cyberattack, which delayed some flights while the company worked to restore the system and resume normal operations. According to JAL, the cyberattack caused a heavy access Read More …
The Port of Seattle said Saturday it was hit with a “possible cyberattack” that impacted Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, phone systems, and websites. The outage was first reported Saturday morning just after 9 a.m. PT, described as an “internet and web Read More …
