Maritime Cyber Risks Blog

Cyber attacks make no favours. No industry is exempted!

The Coveware Quarterly Ransomware Report describes ransomware incident response trends during Q3 of 2020. Ransomware groups continue to leverage data exfiltration as a tactic, though trust that stolen data will be deleted is eroding as defaults become more frequent when exfiltrated data is made public despite the victim paying. In Q3, Coveware saw...

Towage vessels and their crews are increasingly connected to online services during operations, increasing their vulnerability to cyber threats, malware, viruses and hackers.

Daniel Ng and Professor Siraj Shaikh from CyberOwl question whether shipping executives really know if they are prepared to handle a cyber attack and suggest a cyber drill to find out.

Carnival Corporation said it detected a ransomware attack that accessed and encrypted a portion of one brand's information technology systems on August 15, 2020.

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has published a new Just In Time (JIT) Arrival Guide, highlighting the need for harmonised standards in data exchange between stakeholders involved in the port call process to optimise efficiency and reduce carbon emissions.

Employee mistakes are having a potentially dire impact on enterprise cybersecurity, with 43% of workers admitting to making an error that had a negative impact on corporate digital security.

Vessels are becoming more connected to shore-based systems, meaning the cyber threat is ever-evolving - from crippling ports and terminals to spoofing attacks on ships.

Monitoring is the backbone of good cyber risk management. If you don't know what assets you have and can't see what is happening to those assets, then you can't respond properly if they are under attack. But some fleet operators struggle to justify the budget until they better understand the volume and severity of cyber risks they're exposed to...

The initiative to produce a report on Port Community Cyber Security goes back to a meeting the authors of this paper had at the TT Club offices in London, during the 2019 edition of London International Shipping Week. At that time - September 2019 - only few people had heard of the term 'coronavirus', let alone that anyone could...