Boeing Co. confirmed it is dealing with a \u201ccyber incident\u201d that targeted elements of the parts and distribution business run by its global services division.<\/p>\n
Flight safety isn\u2019t affected, Boeing said in an emailed statement Wednesday, adding, \u201cWe are actively investigating the incident and coordinating with law enforcement and regulatory authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n
A cyber gang with Russian ties, known as\u00a0Lockbit<\/a>,<\/strong> claimed in a post on the dark web last week that it would start releasing \u201csensitive data\u201d if the aerospace and defence giant didn\u2019t meet a ransom demand by Nov. 2.<\/p>\n But on Wednesday evening, there was no mention of Boeing on Lockbit\u2019s leak website.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen organisations are removed from leak sites, it often means either that the organisation has paid the ransom or that it\u2019s agreed to negotiate,\u201d said Brett Callow, threat analyst at Emsisoft.<\/p>\n \u201cThe former is usually permanent, whereas the latter may only be temporary.\u201d<\/p>\n A Boeing spokeswoman declined to comment on whether the US planemaker paid any ransom. The company is notifying customers and suppliers of the cyberattack.<\/p>\n Lockbit is among the most notorious hacking gangs, often deploying ransomware to lock up victim\u2019s files and then demanding a payment to unlock them.<\/p>\n More recently, hacking gangs have been stealing documents and demanding payment to not release them publicly.<\/p>\n Boeing shares were little changed in extended trading.<\/p>\n The Russian hacking gang claiming to behind the attack \u2014 Lockbit \u2014 is among the most notorious hacking gangs, often deploying ransomware to lock up victim\u2019s files and then demanding a payment to unlock them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":513459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29366],"tags":[8789,72252,63014,199,461,85613,30150,15533,43794],"class_list":["post-513453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-boeing","tag-cyberattacks","tag-flight-safety","tag-hackers","tag-hacking","tag-lockbit","tag-ransomware","tag-russia","tag-russian-hackers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513455,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513453\/revisions\/513455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read: South Africa promises never to pay cybercrime ransoms \u2014 Report<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"