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The scattered spider, a cyber crime group, is aimed at the aviation industry in the USA and Canada.
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The FBI said that the hackers are wrong to help desks to give them access to data.
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Every part of the “Airline -Ecosystem” could be at risk, said the FBI.
Even these days are susceptible to hackers.
Accordingly An FBI warning, a notorious cyber criminance group as known as Scattered spider is deceptive to help desk to apply targeting US airline.
The scattered spider became aware of in 2023 because he chopped both MGM resorts and Caesar’s entertainment within a week.
“These actors rely on social engineering techniques that often spend on employees or contractors to deceive IT aid stitches,” said the FBI on X. “These techniques often contain methods for bypassing multi-factor authentication (MFA), e.g.
The FBI said the group focused on large companies and its IT providers of third-party providers, so that “everyone in the airline ecosystem, including trustworthy providers and contractors, could be at risk”.
“As soon as they are inside, scattered spider players steal sensitive data for extortion and often provide ransomware,” said the agency.
The FBI did not indicate that the actions influence the safety of the airline.
Charles Carmakal, Chief Technology Officer from Google’s Mandiant, a cyber security company and subsidiary of Google Cloud, said on LinkedIn that the company knows “several incidents in the airline and the transport sector that are similar to the operating processes of UNC3944 or scattered spiders”.
“We recommend that the industry take steps immediately to tighten your help desk identity examination process before adding new telephone numbers to employees/contractor accounts (which can be reseted by the threat player to carry out self-service password), to add passwords for MFA solutions, or employees who can indicate that for a subsequent social engine attacks.
Unit 42, a research team with cybersecurity threats, which is part of the larger Palo Alto Networks Cybersecurity Corporation, said that she has also observed scattered spider on the aircraft industry.
“Organizations should be highly developed for highly developed and targeted social engineering attacks and suspicious MFA reset inquiries,” said Sam Rubin, Senior Vice President for Consulting and Threat Intelligence 42, on Friday on LinkedIn.
At the beginning of this month, Canada’s Westjet announced that it had uncovered a “cyber security incident with internal systems and the Westjet app, which had restricted access for several users”. A spokesman said Business Insider that the company had made “considerable progress” in terms of the matter, and the investigations have not yet been completed.
Hawaiian Airlines also said on Thursday that it experienced a “cyber security event” that influenced some of his IT systems.
“We continue to operate our full flight schedule and the guest trip is not influenced,” said the company in a press release.
No airline gave details about who or what the cyber security incidents caused. A spokesman for Southwest Airlines said his systems were not compromised.
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