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Ransomware Attack Highlights Maritime Cyber Risks<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.mbtmag.com\/cybersecurity\/blog\/22969119\/ransomware-attack-highlights-maritime-cyber-risks<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-18 01:26:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. A ransomware attack\u00a0claimed\u00a0by the Anubis group against Croatia\u2019s Adriatic Port of Plo\u010de and newly\u00a0disclosed findings from U.S.-seized \u201cdark fleet\u201d tankers are drawing attention to the growing cyber risks facing global maritime\u00a0operations. The rising RaaS group Anubis was seeking $10M in Bitcoin or threatened to release the stolen data on the dark web.Meanwhile, the Coast Guard exclusively shared with the Wall Street Journal a report examining sanctioned oil tankers which uncovered sophisticated communications, networking, and tracking technologies designed to support covert\u00a0maritime\u00a0operations and evade monitoring.According to the Coast Guard\u2019s discoveries, the technology found aboard the tankers enabled vessels to maintain communications, coordinate activities, and obscure operational visibility while avoiding sanctions enforcement. Experts with Finite State and Black Hills Information Security offer perspectives on the matter.Josh Marpet, Senior Product Security Consultant, Finite State\u201cDrug cartels have, for years, been using private cell phone networks, radar, and LiDAR in order to evade wire taps, bypass, communication, blackouts, and effectively create one of the most important things in warfare, effective communications.\u00a0“If we\u2019re seeing the same behavior come out of unsanctioned oil operations, then we\u2019re talking about systems that have risen out of long-term nation state-level attempts to bypass other nation state’s blockades and sanctions. It\u2019s not simple to set up a private cell network across miles of water. It\u2019s not simple, cheap or easy to set up private Internet across large expanses of land and sea.\u00a0“And to set up a reconnaissance\/scouting system so that you can warn tankers and vector them around the searching vessels, that\u2019s incredible amounts of money, effort, and time, which means a couple of things.\u00a0“One. There\u2019s a lot of money in this. It\u2019s worth it to do it from a financial standpoint. Two. They\u2019ve got a cyber security group or a military cyber warfare group doing it for them. And the fact that they have built this capability is impressive and scary.\u00a0This implies that they have a SigInt (signals intelligence) capability sufficient to evade at least some military groups.John Strand, Owner, Black Hills Information Security, Inc.”Attacks like this continue to demonstrate that threat actors are increasingly strategic in how they target systems. They are focusing on points of entry that allow them to maximize impact across multiple industries.\u00a0By\u00a0doing so, they significantly increase both the likelihood of receiving payment\u00a0and\u00a0the overall size of the payout.\u201d
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