Boeing claimed by LockBit ransom gang
Leading global aerospace, commercial jetliner manufacturer, and US military and defense contractor The Boeing Company is being claimed by the LockBit ransomware gang.
The Russian-linked ransomware group posted Boeing as its latest conquest Friday around 2 p.m. ET on its dark leak site.
“We are assessing this claim,” a Boeing
spokesperson told Cybernews in a brief statement Friday just after 4:40 p.m. ET.
LockBit says it has a tremendous amount of sensitive data that will be published if the company does not contact the group by a November 2nd deadline of 1:23 pm UTC – roughly six days from Friday.
“For now, we will not send lists or samples to protect the company BUT we will not keep it like that until the deadline,” LockBit posted.
“All available data will be published!” the group stated.
LockBit has not provided the amount of data allegedly exfiltrated from Boeing but lists the company and its subsidiaries as worth 60 billion dollars. The company reportedly employs over 150,000 people.
The global aviation and space technology leader “develops, manufactures, sells, services, and supports commercial jetliners, military aircraft, satellites, missile defense, human space flight, and launch systems and services worldwide,” LockBit posted.
According to malware researchers vx-underground, who discussed the attack with the gangs’ leaders, Lockbit claims they haven’t spoken to Boeing yet and refused to disclose what type of data might have been exfiltrated.
However, attackers say they breached the company via a zero-day exploit, although no further details on the nature of the supposed vulnerability were disclosed.
Researchers also noticed that Lockbit gave Boeing six days to begin negotiation, while typically victim’s are given ten day to reach out to cybercriminals.
Interestingly, Boeing was delisted from the gang’s blog sometime between October 30 and October 31. Delisting a company from the dark web blog can signify that the company has started negotiating with the cybercrooks or even agreed to submit to the demands of the criminals.
We have reached out to Boeing for clarification on the company’s removal from the dark web blog.
