Boeing Hit by WannaCry Ransomware Attack
IsraelDefense
| 29/03/2018
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A Boeing production plant in Charleston, South Carolina was hit by the WannaCry ransomware cyber-attack on Wednesday, according to a report from the Seattle Times.
Mike VanderWel, the chief engineer at Boeing Commercial Airplane production engineering, sent out a company-wide memo calling for "all hands on deck."
"It is metastasizing rapidly out of North Charleston and I just heard 777 (automated spar assembly tools) may have gone down," Boeing engineer Mike VanderWel wrote in a memo cited by the newspaper. VanderWel said he was concerned that the virus would hit equipment used to test jetliners before they roll out of the factory for their initial flight and potentially "spread to airplane software."
In a statement released Wednesday evening, Boeing downplayed the attack and said it was limited in scope and that it had not affected the company’s production lines.
"A number of articles on a malware disruption are overstated and inaccurate," Boeing’s statement said. "Our cybersecurity operations center detected a limited intrusion of malware that affected a small number of systems. Remediations were applied and this is not a production or delivery issue."
http://www.boeing.com
A Boeing production plant in Charleston, South Carolina was hit by the WannaCry ransomware cyber-attack on Wednesday, according to a report from the Seattle Times.
Mike VanderWel, the chief engineer at Boeing Commercial Airplane production engineering, sent out a company-wide memo calling for "all hands on deck."
"It is metastasizing rapidly out of North Charleston and I just heard 777 (automated spar assembly tools) may have gone down," Boeing engineer Mike VanderWel wrote in a memo cited by the newspaper. VanderWel said he was concerned that the virus would hit equipment used to test jetliners before they roll out of the factory for their initial flight and potentially "spread to airplane software."
In a statement released Wednesday evening, Boeing downplayed the attack and said it was limited in scope and that it had not affected the company’s production lines.
"A number of articles on a malware disruption are overstated and inaccurate," Boeing’s statement said. "Our cybersecurity operations center detected a limited intrusion of malware that affected a small number of systems. Remediations were applied and this is not a production or delivery issue."
