Editorial TeamUS aerospace company hit by cyber-attack
An unknown threat actor has breached an as-yet-unnamed US aerospace company. According to BlackBerry, who first highlighted the attack, the threat actor’s weaponization of a phishing attack became operational around September 2022, with the offensive phase of the attack occurring almost a year later in July of this year.
The cybercriminals responsible, whom BlackBerry has christened “AeroBlade,” are believed to have used the intervening nine months to develop the additional resources necessary to ensure access to the aerospace company’s systems to exfiltrate potentially highly valuable information – pointing to a high degree of professionalism and persistence on the part of the attacker.
