Port of Rotterdam

Performance indicators

2021: Europe's largest port by freight turnover

Europe's busiest cargo ports in 2021

History

2023: Suspension due to cyber attacks

In early June 2023, information appeared that several sites of Dutch ports were subjected to cyber attacks by hackers, allegedly pro-Russian, from the NoName057 group (16). As a result, the ports suspended operation.

As a result, DDoS the sites of several ports were disabled for several hours, and some even for days. A hacker under the nickname NoName057 (16) said that these attacks were carried out in response to the intention to Netherlands buy Swiss tanks for, Ukraine according to RTL Nieuws.

Port of Rotterdam

The port authorities of Groningen, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Den Helder confirmed to RTL Nieuws the fact of DDoS attacks. With such a cyber attack, the site or server is flooded with requests to failure. At the beginning of June 3, 2023, the sites of the ports of Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Den Helder were disabled for several hours, and the site of the seaport of Groningen was disabled until June 12.

The Netherlands wants to buy Leopard 1 for delivery to Ukraine. By the way, according to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, 8 Leopard 1 tanks have already been destroyed. Bring the next batch! J, said a message from NoName057 (16) in the logs of web resources.

According to the Rotterdam Port Authority, the attacks were carried out from Russian and Serbian IP addresses. The attack has not done much more damage, but for ports, the website is important because management can inform the public about ship and cargo schedules. Delivery systems were not compromised because they run on other servers

According to US cybersecurity researcher at SentinelOne Tom Hegel, NoName057 (16) is a small group of hacktivists. Hackers began carrying out cyber attacks, mainly DDoS, after the start of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine at the end of February 2023. The purpose of this group seems to be to provide assistance to the Russian Federation. NoName057 (16) often attacks the banking sector, private companies supplying defense products and logistics companies in NATO member countries, Tom Hegel told RTL^[1]

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