The FBI also warned of the group's ongoing attacks.
Aviation and transportation organisations across the U.S. were targeted by the Scattered Spider ransomware operation.
According to Google Cloud Mandiant and Palo Alto Networks researchers, the attacks against the transportation industry were also confirmed by Halcyon researchers, who also disclosed the hacking collective's ongoing targeting of food and manufacturing entities.
The FBI also warned of the group's ongoing attacks, which commence with the infiltration of high-profile companies and their third-party IT providers before the subsequent deployment of ransomware for data extortion activities.
Such alerts come after Hawaiian Airlines had some of its IT systems compromised following a cybersecurity incident that has not impacted its operations. Hawaiian Airlines has yet to provide more details on the intrusion and its perpetrator.
Outages resulting in flight delays were also disclosed by American Airlines but no additional details on the disruption were provided.
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Dan Raywood is a B2B journalist with 25 years of experience, including covering cybersecurity for the past 17 years. He has extensively covered topics from Advanced Persistent Threats and nation-state hackers to major data breaches and regulatory changes.
He has spoken at events including 44CON, Infosecurity Europe, RANT Forum, BSides Scotland, Steelcon and the National Cyber Security Show, and served as editor of SC Media UK, Infosecurity Magazine and IT Security Guru. He was also an analyst with 451 Research and a product marketing lead at Tenable.
