Known incidents

Olivier JACQ — Mon, 18 May 2020 10:14:34 +0000

This article lists nearly 80 public incidents that have affected the maritime sector, deliberately or otherwise, over the past twenty years. It is not intended to be exhaustive, but please let me know if you are aware of other public and corroborated cases. The aim is not to single out a company or a state, but to raise awareness of incidents that have already occurred and, when known, their consequences. I will add more over time. As always, attribution and sources should be treated with caution, as should the apparent increase in the public number of incidents. I am also gradually adding submarine cable outages.

U.S. Coast Guard responds to a cyber incident aboard a vessel

Olivier JACQ — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 11:33:31 +0000

A recent security advisory from the U.S. Coast Guard provides interesting details about a cyber incident that occurred in February 2019 aboard a deep-draft vessel (no further details were provided). The vessel, which was sailing on an international route bound for the Port of New York and New Jersey, notified the Coast Guard that it was experiencing a significant cyber incident affecting its onboard IT network.

A team composed of several experts from different government agencies, led by the U.S. Coast Guard, responded to the report and conducted an analysis of the vessel’s network and its critical control systems. The team concluded that although the malware had significantly degraded the performance of onboard computers, the ship’s essential command and control systems had not been affected.

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Known incidents

U.S. Coast Guard responds to a cyber incident aboard a vessel