Cosco hacked again
Cosco Shipping, the world’s third largest containerline, is urgently trying to fix another hacking issue that has ripped through many of its staff’s email systems over the weekend.
A Brazilian hacker who goes by the name of L0RDBR hacked
into Cosco’s email system on Saturday. When contacted by Splash, a source at
Cosco’s IT centre confirmed today that the email system had been attacked and
it was still being fixed. No timeline for how long it would take to resolve was
given.
All of the world’s top containerlines have been hacked in
recent years. In July 2018, Cosco’s staff across the Americas resorted to using
Yahoo email addresses and social media to keep in touch with clients as the
state-owned Chinese carrier grappled to get operations on track following a
ransomware attack. Though banned in China, sites such as Facebook and Twitter
became vital client communication tools for Cosco’s American staff during that
attack. The 2018 cyber attack is believed to have started at a customer service
centre in Long Beach and spread across Cosco’s US network and then the entire
Americas region.
Shipping as a whole has been warned of a heightened threat
of cyber attacks in recent days following a hack of Microsoft’s Outlook email
program.
While Microsoft released a patch last week to shore up flaws
in its email software, the remedy still leaves open a so-called back door that
can allow access to compromised servers and perpetuating further attacks by
others.
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