https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-new-hacking-group-is-using-island-hopping-to-target-victims/
By Daphne Leprince-Ringuet
ZDNet News
October 3, 2019
While it was believed that hacking groups such as China's APT10 were
orchestrating the attacks against European multinationals in the aerospace and
defense industries this year, the threats are actually coming from previously
unknown hackers, according to one security company.
Identified by cyber security consultancy Context, the new organisation, which
it has named Avivore, has been particularly astute in covering its tracks.
Context, in fact, estimates that it could have been active as early as 2015,
although most of the attacks were only exposed in the last 12 months.
Avivore is believed to be the brain behind recent threats to European aerospace
giant Airbus, which were initially attributed to the already well-known Chinese
groups APT10 and Jiangsu Province Ministry of State Security (JSSD). Airbus
was hit four times this year - with the most recent occurrence happening only
last month.
AFP reported that the attackers intruded Airbus's global supplier network
through British engine-maker Rolls-Royce, which provides engines for Airbus
planes, and French technology consultancy Expleo, in addition to two
unidentified contractors working for the aerospace company.
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