Industry Insight
Growing Exposure
Every day, more yacht systems are becoming exposed online—often misconfigured, outdated, and vulnerable.
The attack surface is expanding fast.
Rising Threat
Yachts are becoming a favored target for APT groups (government-funded hacker groups) and cybercriminals due to weak defenses and high-value onboard systems.
Limited Solutions
Assessing such systems properly requires a rare combination of domain knowledge, manual testing, and threat intelligence—something few providers can deliver at the level our clients expect.
Deep Dive: Exposed Systems We’ve Discovered
Control Interfaces
Autopilot Remotes: Browser-accessible steering panels (AUTO, TRACK, STANDBY, course delta ±1°/±10°) that let an outsider tweak your direction on demand.
VSAT Management Consoles: Exposed satellite-link dashboards showing signal strength, modem logs and firmware upgrade pages.
Dark-Web & Leak Findings
Stolen Credentials: Bulk lists of crew and vendor usernames/passwords found —sometimes hundreds of accounts per vessel.
Blueprints & Config Backups: Leaked network diagrams, SSH keys and config files.
System Health & Configuration
Server Uptime & Loads: Dashboard stats (deltas/sec, plugin counts, WebSocket clients) leaking which software versions and resource loads you’re running.
Error Tracebacks: Full Python and Node.js exception dumps from plugins exposing file paths and information.