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US coast guard Ryuk attack

Event Year
2020
Reliability
Confirmed
Country
United States
Industry
Transportation
Attack Type
Targeted Attack

Description

USCG Marine Safety Information Bulletin 02-19 disclosed in December 2019 that a Ryuk ransomware infection at an MTSA-regulated maritime facility had disrupted process-control monitoring systems alongside corporate IT, resulting in a 30-hour operational shutdown. The infection vector was a phishing link opened on a corporate workstation that enabled lateral movement into the OT environment.

Impact

The facility was offline for approximately 30 hours. Process-control and physical-access systems were both affected because of inadequate IT/OT segmentation.

Sources

Source list compiled from OTCAD (Stash Kempinski / Secura, GPL-3.0). Description is risidata's own prose.