Sea transport and Maersk after a hacker attack

Sea transport - Maersk returned to work after the hacker attack, hackers attacked many companies around the world. The largest player on the maritime container transport market is already accepting new bookings / orders for sea freight through INTTRA, but there may be small problems in some offices during their implementation.

The Maersk company did not defend itself against losses, estimated at approximately USD 67.5 million, which translates into a loss of orders at 82.5 thousand TEU.

Hackers attacked not only Maersk in many companies text appeared on computer screens "If you can see this text, it means that your files are no longer available because they have been encrypted. Perhaps you are now busy looking for a way to recover your files, but you are not. waste time. Nobody can recover files without us decrypting them. " The attack was carried out using the Petrwrap virus, a new version of the Petya or Pety virus. servers of the state-owned oil company Rosneft, as well as the Bashneft oil company controlled by the company, and banking ICT systems, some of which have been infected by hackers.

Hacking attacks have also been reported in Polish shipping and courier companies. To sum up, this year's attacks have resulted in multi-million losses for many companies. It is worth mentioning that at the turn of 2016/2017 there was a similar attack, but it was not as publicized.