A new watering hole attack is targeting the aerospace, automotive and manufacturing industries with a new reconnaissance malware tool called Scanbox . Attackers managed to load malware onto the website of a prominent company involved in the development of simulation and systems engineering software widely used within the automotive, aerospace and manufacturing industry. After infection, Scanbox checks the compromised machine for the website referer, User-Agent, Location, Cookie, Title (to identify specific content that the victim is visiting), Domain, Domain, CharsetScreen, Domain and Operating System, and Language.
Source: https://threatpost.com/watering-hole-attack-targets-automotive-aerospace-industries/107998/