MCAD Maritime Cyber Attack Database
Year2018 |
MonthJuly |
Reference number20180701 |
Impact areaShore |
Incident locationLong Beach CA |
Incident countryUSA |
Victim countryUSA |
Victim identityCOSCO Shipping (Port) |
Victim TypePort |
MethodRansomware |
On the 24th of July 2018 COSCO Shipping’s Pier J terminal got hit by a ransomware attack at the Port of Long Beach and it affected lots of other countries, including the United States, Canada, Panama, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Chile, and Uruguay. Which way the cyber criminals used to conduct ransomware on the company is . Luckily, the ransomware outbreak was limited to parts of North and South America and only the network and Computer Systems were affected. The company's main operating systems were not harmed as a result of the attack and because of that all of the ships are in good working order. To avoid further disruptions, the organization decided to shut down connections for a while with other locations, including networking phone and emails. To communicate with their clients, COSCO employees throughout the Americas have used Yahoo email accounts and social media . As well as the threat actors as the campaign of the incident remains . COSCO Shipping reported that it had been investigating and resolving network issues in the Americas.
