14 Real-World Threat Intelligence Use Cases for the Aviation Industry

The SOCRadar overview highlights how the aviation sector faces a broad, evolving threat landscape, with ransomware, credential theft, supply chain attacks, and hacktivist campaigns driving disruption across airports, airlines, and suppliers. It notes that ransomware activity targeting aviation infrastructure has surged, that credential theft and stolen login details are sold on underground markets, and that supply chain compromises can expose millions of passenger records across multiple carriers.

Specific figures cited include a 600% rise in ransomware activity in the aviation supply chain, 98% of organisations having vendor relationships with third parties that experienced cyber events, and a SITA incident affecting over 2.1 million passengers. The piece also cites 3 TB of data exposed by a misconfigured AWS S3 bucket at an airport, 99% of ACARS traffic transmitted in plaintext, and 46% of globally fraudulent online transactions related to airline purchases, framing these as indicators of risk.

According to SOCRadar, threat intelligence capabilities such as Threat Actor Intelligence, Attack Surface Monitoring, and Dark Web Intelligence can help aviation organisations move from reactive defence to proactive threat anticipation.