Publicly disclosed information for this event

Summary

A port is victim of a distributed denial of service attack attributed to a hacktivist movement.

References

1. https://www.globaldomainsnews.com/prorussian-pirates-new-cyberattacks-against-the-port-of-montreal

• Implement rate limiting and traffic filtering to mitigate the impact of incoming malicious traffic.
• Check with your IT service provider that the resilience of its systems against such attack was tested.
• Regularly monitor network traffic and set up alerting for unusual patterns or spikes.
• Diversify your server locations and use failover systems to ensure service availability in case of an attack.
• Establish an incident response plan to quickly mitigate and recover from DoS attacks.