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Pirates Hacked Shipping Firm's CMS To Plan Attacks, Find Valuable Cargo (softpedia.com)

Posted by timothy on from the they-learned-nothing-from-the-wire dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Verizon's most recent Data Breach Digest includes a curious hacking case. Apparently a group of sea pirates have hired a hacker who uploaded a Web shell to a shipping company's CMS that allowed them to download cargo inventories and ship routes. They then used this information to attack ships, equipped with a barcode reader (and weapons of course), searching specific crates, emptying all the high-value cargo, and making off with the loot within minutes of launching their attacks.

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  1. Re:Unarmed ships are helpless. by excelsior_gr · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Get Gatling guns on one ship, the next pirate crew will show up with an RPG. If I was a sailor on one of those ships, there would be no chance in frozen hell I would fire back on a pirate to protect some rich dude's shit on board that's probably insured anyway. You can be as gun-ho about this as you want from your armchair, I'm throwing my hands in the air and letting the pirates go with the cargo.

  2. Re:Unarmed ships are helpless. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    You're an idiot. I'm letting you know, because you probably exist in the kind of social milieu where you're surrounded by other idiots who believe that civilians carrying sidearms and adopting a posture of shooting others (by accident) is considered virtuous.

  3. Re:Unarmed ships are helpless. by jcr · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Defending yourself and your neighbors is virtuous. If you can't see that, you're useless to those around you.

    -jcr

    --
    The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
  4. Way To Much Effort by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Apparently a group of sea pirates have hired a hacker who uploaded a Web shell to a shipping company's CMS that allowed them to download cargo inventories and ship routes. They then used this information to attack ships, equipped with a barcode reader (and weapons of course), searching specific crates

    if you've got that much access, why not just reassign valuable packages/containers deliveries to addresses or shipping companies you control in,and just drive the goods away. Who looks inside a shipping container at a dock anyway? Pick random/breakable commodities of modest value and the company might never twig anything was wrong until you had made off with millions. I don't see the advantage in storming a supercarrier in a small boat and making off with handfuls of jewlery when you could have an entire container delivered to your front door.