Norwegian cruise company Hurtigruten was hit by a ransomware

Norwegian cruise company Hurtigruten disclosed a cyber attack that impacted its entire worldwide digital infrastructure.

The Norwegian cruise company Hurtigruten announced its entire worldwide digital infrastructure was the victim of a cyber attack.

“It’s a serious attack,” said the Hurtigruten’s chief digital officer Ole-Marius Moe-Helgesen in a statement. “The entire worldwide digital infrastructure of Hurtigruten seems to have been hit.” “The attack seems to be a so-called ransomware.”

The company detected the attack overnight Sunday to Monday, the systems at the company were infected with a ransomware.

The company’s website is currently displaying a message that says “Sorry, the website isn’t working right now”

The company notified local authorities immediately after the security breach was discovered.

It is a terrible period for the company and the entire cruise liner industry that is facing the stop of the operations imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The company relaunched its cruisers in June but suspended them again in September for the second wave of the pandemic that infected dozens of crew members and passengers.

At the time of this writing, it is not clear which is the family of ransomware that hit the company either if the hackers have exfiltrated any data from the company.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, Hurtigruten)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.