Maersk Applies New IT Security Systems After Cyber Attack

FILE PHOTO: Crew members look out from the MV Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller as it berths at a PSA International port terminal in Singapore, September 27, 2013. REUTERS/Edgar Su/File Photo

COPENHAGEN, July 20 (Reuters) – A.P. Moller-Maersk said on Thursday its anti-virus software was not effective against a new type of malware that hit the Danish shipping giant last month, but said further protective measures have now been put in place.

“This virus attack was a previously unseen type of malware, and updates and patches applied to both the (Microsoft) Windows systems and our antivirus (program) were not an effective protection in this particular case,” Maersk said in a statement.

“In response to this new type of malware, we have put in place different and further protective measures,” it added.

Read the full statement from Maersk through the link below:

IT Status Update 20-Jul – Find an update regarding cyber security, to which we have received a number of queries: https://t.co/PDUHbd51pr pic.twitter.com/AKSCZqNPfJ

— Maersk Line (@MaerskLine) July 20, 2017

Maersk also said that while operations and communications were significantly affected by the virus attack, it had seen no known data breach or data loss to third-parties. Neither had the virus spread between networks or across the Internet, it said. (Reporting by Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen; Editing by Greg Mahlich)

(c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2017.

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