FERSPED Inc. vessel hit by a ransomware attack in Macedonia

Year

2020

Month

June

Reference number

20200602

Impact area

Shore

Incident location

Macedonia

Incident country

Macedonia

Victim country

Macedonia

Victim identity

FERSPED Inc.

Victim Type

Shipping Company

Method

Ransomware

Attacker country

Russia

Summary:

In June 2020, the Macedonia based FERSPED Inc. experienced a ransomware attack on their network. The maze group are the hackers responsible for the attack. The impact of the attack was the exposure of database files. A few months later, maze group announced their retirement.

Reference URL

https://www.cyfirma.com/blogs/maze-ransomware-group-declared-successful-exploits-of-many-organizations-and-released-massive-data-on-public-site-in-one-day/
https://gist.github.com/Wilhit/b5d7b7dbe9c426f8399e3f71248b1ab8