Port Alliance

The Port Alliance Company is engaged in the transshipment of coal, mineral fertilizers, iron ore, and building materials.

History

2025: Infrastructure of a company serving six marine terminals in Russia was subjected to a large-scale DDoS attack

The Port Alliance company announced that^[1] on its Telegram channel on November 13 that its digital infrastructure was subjected to a large-scale DDoS attack with a simultaneous attempt to hack from abroad.

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Фото: "Port Alliance"

The actions of the attackers are aimed at disabling critical elements of the Port Alliance's digital infrastructure. The purpose of the attack was to destabilize the work and disrupt business processes related to export shipments of mineral fertilizers and coal through the company's seaports in the Baltic, Azov-Black Sea, Far Eastern, Arctic basins, the published report said.

According to the company, the attack was identified as multi-vector, combining DNS amplification, IP FRAGMENTATION, SYN- and UDP-flood, with a peak intensity of up to 16 Gbps using a zombie network of more than 15 thousand devices located around the world, including the territory of the Russian Federation. Attackers used ever-changing attack vectors to bypass basic defense systems. Despite this, the cyber attack has been successfully suppressed. According to the representative of the company, the operability of all key systems has been preserved, the operational business processes of ports and terminals have not been affected.

The operational and well-coordinated work of our IT and information security teams made it possible to continue uninterrupted work on receiving, processing and sending goods in the company's seaports and terminals, - said Maxim Kislov, director of digital development at the Port Alliance. - We have confirmed a high level of readiness for such attacks being carried out from abroad.

As of November 14, the Port Alliance website is working properly, and the Detector404 service records its full availability throughout the country.

As of November 2025, the Port Alliance operates six maritime terminals on the country's main highways: in Murmansk, Khabarovsk Territory, Ust-Luga, Nakhodka and Tuapse. The total volume of transshipment of coal and mineral fertilizers is more than 50 million tons per year.

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