This is not good: Boeing was reportedly hit Wednesday by the WannaCry computer virus, with some executives worrying it could extend to airplane software. https://t.co/qozvyhDD52— Lisa Mei Crowley (@LisaMei62) March 28, 2018
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/380730-boeing-hit-by-wannacry-virus#.Wrwh3LhpYq0.twitter
“We are on a call with just about every VP in Boeing,” VanderWel wrote, according to the Times.
Boeing would be the latest organization to be victimized by WannaCry, the malware that spread rapidly throughout hundreds of thousands of Windows devices in 150 countries during a single week in May.
The White House in December accused North Korean leader Kim Jong Un of releasing the malware in the May attack.
Last year’s WannaCry attack was considered particularly malicious because it used exposed vulnerabilities in old and unpatched Windows systems.
WannaCry initially appeared to be ransomware, malware that encrypts files on a system and charges users a bounty to unlock them. But coding and strategic errors made it impossible for victims paying a ransom to retrieve the encrypted files.
HMMMM
scary. FF potential?
Yeah, and that link was hit with the screen-blocking spam virus, causing me to close the frame. And that’s with a popup blocker on my Mac!
Doesn’t help the bottom line to have lots of airplanes inexplicably falling out of the sky. Hope they get on top of it first.
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