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The website of an Emirati company specializing in the supply of lubricants for ships is the victim [...]

Day	Month	Year	Country	Activity	Incident Type
17	May	2023	United Arab Emirates	Industry	Denial of Service

Summary

The website of an Emirati company specializing in the supply of lubricants for ships is the victim of a denial of service attack claimed by a hacktivist group supporting Russia.

Victim

ENOC

Claimed/Reported Threat Actor

Anonymous Sudan

Origin

Hacktivism

Main impact

Availability

References

https://thecyberexpress.com/ddos-attack-on-emirates-national-oil-company/

Recommendations to Industry to reduce Denial of Service risks:

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 fail-over systems to ensure service availability in case of an attack.
Establish an incident response plan to quickly mitigate and recover from DoS attacks.

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