Aviation giant Boeing confirmed the cyber attack reduced its distribution and spare parts business. The LockBit gang, which specializes in ransomware, is suspected of being responsible for the breach.

Ransomware is an epidemic that has no end once it happens the biggest threat to global cyber security. There isn’t a week that doesn’t go by without new victims, and the attacks are becoming more numerous and dangerous. And they are published because others are behind them. If at the beginning this type of cyberattacks focused mainly on individual users, cybercriminal groups soon became increasingly important in companies, administrations and organizations.

And no one is safe. The latest case involves Boeing, the US aerospace giant, the world’s second-largest manufacturer of commercial aircraft and the planet’s second-largest defense supplier. “We are aware of a cyber incident affecting elements of our distribution and spare parts business. “This problem does not affect the safety of the flight.”BleepingComputer’s sources specified.

Although Boeing has not confirmed this and the company publicly says it is actively investigating the incident in coordination with regulatory and law enforcement authorities and that it has informed customers and suppliers about the case, all indications are that LockBit is behind.

This group of cybercriminals has in the past been responsible for major cyber attacks, against the automotive giant Continental, the British Royal Mail, the Italian tax service or the largest consulting firm in the world, Accenture. Last weekend, they published a statement on the Deep Internet about the breach of Boeing’s computer network and the theft of a significant amount of confidential information, which they would release if the manufacturer did not communicate with them within five days.

Or what is the same thing, they paid a “ransom”, which should not have been small. It is not known whether Boeing has paid or will pay… The cybercriminals have pulled their extortion ad, although at the time of writing Boeing Services website still down.

It should be remembered that Ransomware’s approach against corporate and critical infrastructure is accompanied by so-called tactics “triple blackmail”which contains sensitive data from the target’s systems are extracted before being locked using the appropriate encryption, a hallmark of ransomware. Victims are then pressured to pay the ransom by threatening to publish the stolen data online.