This new hacking group is using 'island hopping' to target victims

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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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