https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-based-un-aviation-agency-tried-to-cover-up-2016-cyberattack-documents-show-1.5033733
By Debra Arbec
CBC News
Feb 27, 2019
In November 2016, the Montreal-based International Civil Aviation Organization
(ICAO) was hit by the most serious cyberattack in its history, and internal
documents obtained by CBC suggest key members of the team that should have
prevented the attack tried to cover up how badly it was mishandled.
As the United Nations body that sets standards for civil aviation around the
world, ICAO is the gateway to everyone in the aviation industry, so an
uncontained cyberattack left not just ICAO vulnerable, but made sitting ducks
of its partners worldwide.
The documents obtained by CBC suggest the hacker was most likely a member of
Emissary Panda, a sophisticated and stealthy espionage group with ties to the
Chinese government.
At ICAO, investigators found a network full of holes, with security
vulnerabilities that should have been flagged years earlier.
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