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On September 24th, researchers discovered that the NLP platform was exposing sensitive credentials, secrets, and encryption keys via publicly available JS files.
In addition to that, a number of Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 buckets were left publicly accessible to anyone. The buckets contained the personal data of workers, marine crew, invoices, and internal documents. As the platform deals with the country’s critical infrastructure, this oversight might introduce great risk.
Alarmingly, the exposed AWS S3 keys allowed anyone to get higher privileges and gain access to all of the NLP infrastructure. This poses a grave danger of ransomware attacks. Threat actors could have taken advantage of the access to the system to encrypt critical information and make it inaccessible to the waterways authorities.
It might have caused far-reaching consequences, such as disrupting the trade and operations of India’s ports, not to mention the financial implications of significant ransoms demanded for the decryption keys.
According to the CEO of SecurityDiscovery Bob Diachenko, who first identified the leak, the exact consequences are hard to estimate.
“Figuratively speaking, India’s one-window solution for shipping has left its digital keys right under the doormat. Moreover, the door itself was also open. The JS file should not contain hardcoded credentials in the first place and AWS S3 buckets with sensitive data should be private – especially, when it is a governmental institution. It is also a huge reputational risk not only for that particular asset but for the entire country,” explained Cybernews Diachenko.
If you want to know more about India’s NLP and how the flaw was managed take a look at the original post:
https://cybernews.com/security/national-logistics-portal-data-leak/
About the author: Paulina Okunytė, Journalist at Cybernews
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