Boeing Possibly Hit by WannaCry, Company Plays Down Cyberattack

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Boeing appears to be the most recent target of the WannaCry ransomware, but the company says that it detected only what it calls “limited malware intrusion” impacting a “small number of systems.”

The ransomware first hit Boeing on Wednesday evening, and Mike VanderWel, chief engineer at Boeing Commercial Airplane production engineering, sent out a memo to warn that the infection could even affect airplane software.

“It is metastasizing rapidly out of North Charleston and I just heard 777 (automated spar assembly tools) may have gone down,” VanderWel was quoted as saying by The Seattle Times.

WannaCry was first detected in 2017 and the ransomware triggered a prompt response from Microsoft, who issued emergency security patches even for the unsupported Windows XP. While Windows 10 was protected against WannaCry, statistics sho... (read more)

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