South Africa's ATNS, which runs air traffic control for about 10% of the world's airspace, found early-stage ransomware tooling in a weather OT network. The state operator says its team stopped the attack yet is seeking outside forensics to learn how the attackers got in.
Publishers:businessday.co.za · darkreading.com · scworld.com Perspective Coverage
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- Operator 60%
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- Hype gap+20
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Academic researchers hijacked the link between two Boeing 737 flight computers with a coin-sized board. The constraint was never budget or code. It was who can reach the nose bay.
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The systems that sold parking bays, lounge passes and Wi-Fi logins were never in the same control scope as anything that moves aircraft, and they held phone numbers, plates and postcodes for 8.7 million people.
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- Operator 54%
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The Transportation Department's final rule drops amenity obligations for ten causes of disruption. Cyberattacks qualify only while the carrier can show compliance with applicable cybersecurity regulations, language Crowell & Moring calls notably broad.
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- Evidence64
- Adoption25
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives72
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A passenger reportedly replaced a Delta flight's in-flight Wi-Fi with their own network and a phishing page. It surfaced the same week the administration floated paying private firms to hack back.
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