MCAD Maritime Cyber Attack Database
Year2015 |
MonthJuly |
Reference number20150701 |
Impact areaShore |
Incident locationLimassol |
Incident countryCyprus |
Victim countryCyprus |
Victim identityA Shipping Company |
Victim TypeShipping Company |
MethodPhishing |
Attacker countryPoland |
In July 2015, a Shipping Company was hit by a phishing attack in Limassol, Cyprus. The attackers pretended to be a bunker supplier (a company in Africa) and asked for the payment to be remitted to another bank account, in order to make money. The company complied, only to find out it had been defrauded when it later received an email from the real fuel company asking for payment. The bunker supplier, which were Polish criminals, stole $644.000 from the Shipping Company.
