Importantly, the 2021 competition once more demonstrated that hacking skills from land-based systems and environments are easily transposable to a maritime environment. While this year’s challenge required hackers to tap into propulsion, steering, and navigation systems through a wired connection to their laptops, next year the hope is to provide a wireless environment.
Using realistic components and protocols, hackers were able to penetrate different maritime subsystems including navigation, firefighting, and steering systems. The simulated maritime bridge setup is meant to be an accurate facsimile of equipment typically in use onboard ocean-going vessels, allowing hacking teams to attack the afloat environment. The conference’s Hack the Sea Village “SeaTF” hacking challenge allowed teams of three to five individuals to gain hands-on experience hacking real maritime hardware in a controlled environment using Fathom5’s “Grace” maritime cyber security testbed.
From this effort came a coveted “Black Badge” from the Maritime Hacking village of the annual cyber security conference DefCon, held in August 2021 in Las Vegas. They were in and through the navigation interface in a remarkably short time and had control of both the steering systems and the throttle in quick succession.
The hackers did exactly this - surprisingly without foreknowledge of the specific systems they were to hack prior to beginning the penetration. The techniques were simple enough - penetrate the platform through the onboard navigation system and then go horizontally across the onboard networks to gain control of key systems such as steering and the throttle. The US administration has expressed deep concern over the Russian attacks on Ukrainian port cities, calling it an attempt by the Kremlin to resume the naval blockade of Ukrainian ports.The warnings had been issued for years. After that, the Russian Defense Ministry said that it would consider ships sailing to Ukrainian ports as military targets. According to him, "there are no legal grounds for attacking a civilian vessel that is sailing to a Ukrainian port to get food."Īs reported by Ukrinform, on July 17, Russia announced its withdrawal from the Black Sea "grain deal" concluded in Istanbul last July. The US representative emphasized that civilian ships in the Black Sea are trying to deliver food to people in need. "We obviously continue to urge Russia to return to the grain deal, and we will be watching very closely how they decide to behave in this regard," Kirby said. This was stated on Thursday during a telephone briefing by White House National Security Council Coordinator John Kirby, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. The United States calls on Moscow to return to the grain deal and emphasizes that it will closely monitor Russia's actions in the Black Sea.
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