FBI, Coast Guard boarded hacked oil tankers heading towards US coast
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Hacked oil tankers with compromised navigation and propulsion systems show that cyber risk is now fully entangled with physical maritime safety. Operators in any critical infrastructure domain need to treat OT security and incident response as board-level priorities, not IT line items.
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