Offshore Hacking? Usually when we mention the term piracy on technology websites we mean the illegal distribution of software, movies, musicand other digital content. But Verizon revealed a different piracy case, with real pirates raiding ships.
A team πειρατών κατάφερε να παραβιάσει το σύστημα διαχείρισης περιεχομένου μιας ναυτιλιακής εταιρείας αποσπώντας εμπιστευτικές πληροφορίες σχετικές με τα δρομολόγια, το φορτίο και το είδος των πλοίων.
The Verizon publication explains:
Instead of spending days waiting on boats, pirates began attacking boats with a highly targeted method.
Specifically, they board a boat, force the crew to be locked in the cabins for a short period of time. When the crew finally gets out of the cabins they find that the pirates hit just a few containers.
Of course, the situation is very worrying for shipping companies, but there is also an encouraging event. The publication concludes that while the team was creative enough, they were not hackers.
They failed to enable SSL in the web shell, so their commands were passed in plain text, which allowed the shipping company to write a code protectionrelatively easily. The publication also says that technicians discovered numerous incorrect commands.
Pirates also do not appear to have used a proxy or a VPN during these attempts, but they did the IP attacks they use at home.
But worrying is that although pirates are pioneers, the attack shows that their techniques are changing as they started using hacking.
With a little education they will also acquire the skills….
