Tag: cyber

  • 10% of Small Businesses Breached Shut Down in 2019

    October 23: As a result of cybercrime, 69% of small organizations [non-maritime specific] were forced offline for a limited time and 37% experienced financial loss. Ten percent of small businesses […]

  • Chinese Hackers Use New Cryptojacking Tactics to Evade Detection

    October 15: Chinese-speaking cybercrime group Rocke, known for operating multiple large-scale malicious crypto-mining campaigns, has now switched to new Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs), including new C2 infrastructure and updated […]

  • Two Major Cyberattacks Have Targetted Kuwait Transportation and Shipping Industry This Year

    September 25: The Kuwait transportation and shipping industry has undergone two major cyber attack campaigns on their IT systems between May and June 2019, identified by Unit 42, a global […]

  • Protect and Survive: How Maersk Learned From the NotPetya Cyber Attack

    June 26: AP Møller-Maersk was perhaps the highest-profile casualty of the 2017 NotPetya malware, with a negative impact on the company’s revenue to the tune of nearly US$250M.  Chief information security […]

  • The Ultimate Hybrid War Strategy

    Cyber attack? Just cut the cable… The Ultimate Hybrid War Strategy: Attack Deep-Sea Fiber-Optic Cables Steve Weintz When a July 2015 undersea tremor triggered a rockslide between the islands of […]

  • Navy takes cyber threat seriously

    The new Type-26 Global Combat Ship has been designed to protect its weapons, engines and systems from cyber warfare. Cyber attacks ‘as big a threat to new warships as missiles […]

  • Hackers Target Oil & Gas Companies

    Hundreds of companies targeted by Russian hackers. Russian Hackers Targeting Oil and Gas Companies By NICOLE PERLROTH SAN FRANCISCO — Russian hackers have been systematically targeting hundreds of Western oil and gas companies, […]