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

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 2, 2016 @05:08PM 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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Unarmed ships are helpless. by jcr · 2016-03-02 17:39 · Score: 3, Interesting

It's fucking ludicrous that a vessel carrying a billion dollars worth of cargo isn't protected by at least a pair of .50 caliber Gatling guns. These pirates should be getting turned into a red mist at 500 yards.
-jcr

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