Publicly disclosed information for this event

Index Number:

Title:

2020_017

A GPS manufacturer working, amongst others, for the maritime sector, is hit by a ransomware attack.

Day	Month	Year	Country	Activity	Incident Type
23	July	2020	United States	Manufacturer	Virus/Ransomware

Summary

A GPS manufacturer working, amongst others, for the maritime sector, is hit by a ransomware attack.

Victim

N/A

Claimed/Reported Threat Actor

N/A

Origin

Cybercrime

Main impact

Availability

References

https://www.navionics.com/caf/blog/post/outage

Recommendations to Manufacturer to reduce Virus/Ransomware risks:

Map, understand, patch and secure your exposed assets on the Internet.
Implement email filtering systems to detect and block phishing emails.
Train your organisation, personnel regularly against these threats.
Install efficient Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) tools.
Work with your CSIRT organization to better understand the Tactics, Techniques and Procedures used by threat actors.
Monitor your IT and OT systems to quickly detect potential pre-ransomware activity.
Implement an efficient offline backup policy.
Encrypt all sensitive data to avoid further data leaks.

Previous Next

Disclaimer: the data are provided as is. France Cyber Maritime and the M-CERT take no responsibility for the soundness, quality, precision, nor the eventual attribution made by the referenced URLs. We give a lot of respect and support to the victims of attacks.

Files generated on Thursday, 10th October 2024.
ADMIRAL is licensed under the Creative Commons