Part 3: A very modern form of piracy: Cybercrime against the shipping industry – Data Protection
| Clyde & Co | Insight – 20 April 2021 |
The maritime industry, which uses vast quantities of electronically stored and transmitted data, is particularly vulnerable to ransomware threats. Increasingly sophisticated strains, like Conti or REvil, can spread across the entire network of a shipping company, infecting computers globally and encrypting data. Not only are systems encrypted, but the...