In an replace on its earlier announcement, classification society DNV has revealed that the cyberattack that hit its ShipManager fleet administration software program on the night of Saturday, January 7 was a ransomware assault. It additionally revealed that in whole round 1,000 vessels are affected.
DNV says it’s speaking day by day with all 70 affected clients to replace them on findings of the continued forensic investigations.
DNV has shut down ShipManager’s IT servers in response to the incident. All customers can nonetheless use the onboard, offline functionalities of the ShipManager software program.
There are not any indications that another software program or information by DNV is affected. The server outage doesn’t impression another DNV providers.
DNV says it’s working carefully with world IT safety companions to research the incident and to make sure operations are on-line as quickly as attainable. DNV is in dialogue with the Norwegian police in regards to the incident.