Maritime Computer Emergency Response Team ADMIRAL dataset ADMIRAL dataset

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Index Number:
Title:
2023_134
The website of an Irish passenger transport company is the victim of a denial of service attack [...]
Day Month Year Country Activity Incident Type
19 October 2023 Iran, Islamic Republic of Transport Denial of Service

Summary

The website of an Irish passenger transport company is the victim of a denial of service attack claimed by a hacktivist group supporting Russia.

Victim

IRISH FERRIES

Claimed/Reported Threat Actor

NoName057(16)

Origin

Hacktivism

Main impact

Availability

References

  1. https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/corsica-ferries-le-site-de-la-compagnie-cible-par-une-cyberattaque-des-hackers-pro-russes-revendiquent-laction-28-10-2023-MHLKVN37VFAUNDFRNLF7IHFR7Q.php

Recommendations to Transport 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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