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Subject:Cyber Security Alert for Maritime Stakeholders
Date:Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Priority:High
Notice:

Daily Update Urgent Alert:

 

Yesterday afternoon it became public news that Carnival Cruise Line was attacked by ransomware: One of the possible ways their network may have been infiltrated was through vulnerabilities in their Palo Alto or their Citrix Netscaler perimeter devices.  

 

Here are the CVEs for the published vulnerability and other useful details.  Our recommendation is to review, patch or mitigate, and test from the outside when applicable. 

 

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-2021

 

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-2021

 

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-19781

 

Moran Cyber is available to validate if necessary. For further information and support on remediation/response please contact:

 

Capt. Alex Soukhanov

Managing Director, Moran Cyber

106 Francis Street

Providence, RI 02903  USA
DIRECT: +1-401-450-5996
asoukhanov@morancyber.com  

www.morancyber.com 

www.moranshipping.com

Guillermo (Will) Perez, Ph.D.

GPEN, GWAPT, GICSP, GRID, CISSP

Director of Cybersecurity Solutions

Mobile: ‪+1 786-473-0064

www.linkedin.com/in/maritimecyberguyphd

https://www.morancyber.com/

 

Jason E. Kelly

Executive Vice President
Moran Shipping Agencies, Inc.
106 Francis Street
Providence, RI 02903
(T) 401-941-7200 (F) 866-645-9834 (C) 401-265-7225
jkelly@moranshipping.com     www.moranshipping.com

 

Please visit Ports Serviced for complete contact details.

 

 

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PLEASE NOTE WELL: All emails sent to anyone @moranshipping.com are communications to the firm and are not private or confidential to any named individual

 

Notice posted on Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Disclaimer
For quality assurance purposes please note well that while the above information is regularly vetted for accuracy it is not intended to replace the local knowledge or expertise pertaining to port conditions of our marine operations personnel. Port précis should always be verified by contacting the corresponding marine department of a particular location for the most up-to-date information.