CLEVELAND, Ohio — The FBI has issued a warning that a notorious cybercrime group is expanding its attacks to target the airline industry and its vendors.
The group, known as Scattered Spider, has been observed using sophisticated social engineering tactics to gain access to sensitive systems, the FBI said in an alert issued this week.
According to the agency, attackers frequently impersonate employees or contractors to trick IT help desks into granting access to internal networks. In many cases, they convince help desk staff to register unauthorized devices that can bypass multi-factor authentication protections…