Shipping Company COSCO hit by ransomware attack at its American Network
COSCO Shipping Company’s communication networks taken Offline Shipping Company COSCO was hit by a ransomware infection that left its American networks crippled . The company had to take its other networks temporarily offline as a precautionary measure The company issued an official press release that stated that its local email and telephone networks were unable to work properly at the time due to local American network breakdown. It was not clear as to what the issue was that led to an operations shutdown at the American network of the COSCO Shipping network. Some maritime news websites contained information that the system breakdown or the operations shutdown was implemented due to a Ransomware infection that had infected some of the systems. The source of this news was from the internal emails of COSCO as seen by some maritime news sites. COSCO Shipping Network is taking Contingency Steps The press release of 25 July 2018 from COSCO S...