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New hacker group targets airlines, refugees with well worn tools A newly discovered threat group is targeting the International Air Transport Association (IATA) members, airlines and refugees to Canada. Shown here, a regional jet from Russian airline NordStar, a IATA member. (IATA) MalwareBytes reports a newly discovered threat group targeting the International Air Transport Association (IATA) members, airlines and refugees to Canada. The group, nicknamed LazyScripter, uses an uncommon amount of publicly available tools in its efforts. "What was intere...

Malwarebytes’ exposé of LazyScripter revealed that the group has operated since at least 2018, targeting International Air Transport Association (IATA) members, airlines and immigrants seeking employment in Canada. (Scazon/CC BY 2.0) With cybercriminals commonly sharing tactics and techniques on underground forums, and with digital adversaries frequently leveraging many of the same commodity malwares and commercially available tools, it can be difficult to assign attribution to a cyber campaign. So when researchers claim to uncover that a previously unknown APT group is behind a serie...

By Ionut Arghire on February 24, 2021 A recently identified threat actor that remained unnoticed for roughly two years appears focused on the targeting of airlines that are using the BSPLink financial settlement software made by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes reported on Wednesday. Initially identified in December 2020, the threat actor is targeting IATA and airlines, with the most recent attacks employing a phishing lure mimicking the newly introduced IATA ONE ID (Contactless Passenger Processing tool). Dated 2018, one of the earliest att...