Hapag-Lloyd has announced that its Information Technology (IT) security team has found a copy of the company’s website, which is very likely to mean that the German box carrier could be the target of a possible spear phishing attack.
“This means that e-mails are used to redirect users to this site and when they log in with their personal access data, which are then tapped by criminals,” explains the company.
These kinds of fake websites are usually a one-to-one copy of the real pages and can therefore usually only be recognised as malicious pages via the domain or Internet address.
Hapag-Lloyd said in its statement, “To ensure your safety, please check whether the links you receive in e-mails are actually linked to the correct website and have been called up before entering your personal access data. If you receive suspicious e-mails, please use your phishing mail analyzer, if your organization should have it. To be on the safe side, please enter the correct address of the respective website manually in your browser or open it via your bookmarks.”
The Hamburg-based box line added, “we would like to advise you to please change your login credentials at our website and check that the correct web address is displayed every time you want to view our products and services.”
