Hackers planted remote devices to smuggle drugs through Antwerp port, Europol reveals

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http://news.techworld.com/security/3474018/hackers-planted-remote-devices-smuggle-drugs-through-antwerp-port-europol-reveals/

By John E Dunn
Techworld
16 October 2013

Drug smugglers planted an extraordinary array of ingeniously-disguised 
remote access devices as part of a major hacking attack on the Belgian 
port of Antwerp’s logistics systems, Europol has revealed.

Announced by police in May this year, it is only now that the remarkable 
scale of the attacks and their unusual methods – which bear an uncanny 
resemblance to the recent KVM attacks on UK banks - are becoming clear.

In an interview with the BBC, a Europol official put on display the 
devices used to give criminals remote access to the port’s systems and the 
precious ID codes that allowed containers to be collected by authorised 
firms.

These included miniature PCs hidden inside electrical power strips, 
external hard drives, as well as keyloggers disguised as USB keyboard port 
converters. Although some of this equipment was designed simply to steal 
login credentials, the hackers appear to have used wireless cards to study 
and possibly control the logistics systems in real time.

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