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Logistics Giant Paralyzed! Ransomware Attack Halts European Deliveries
Published: 00:00 10/04/2025
Ransomware
Supply Chain Broken – A Digital Ransom for Physical Goods
Friday evening brought dire news for European commerce. Trans-Europe Express (TEE), one of the key players in the transport and logistics market, has officially confirmed that its IT systems have been targeted by a powerful ransomware attack. As a result, the company was forced to preemptively shut down most of its infrastructure, effectively leading to an operational paralysis.
What's Down and What Are the Consequences?
This is not just a website outage. The attack has struck the core of the company's operations:
- Warehouse Management Systems (WMS): Employees cannot locate, scan, or prepare packages for shipment.
- Transport Planning: The systems responsible for routing trucks and managing the fleet are offline.
- Shipment Tracking: Customers have no visibility into the status of their parcels.
- Internal Communications: A significant portion of the office systems has been encrypted.
In short: trucks are stationary, packages are sitting in warehouses, and the entire logistics network, upon which thousands of European businesses depend, has ground to a halt. The effects of this downtime may become noticeable on store shelves within the coming days.
Who Is Behind It?
Although TEE has not yet provided details, the notorious ransomware group "BlackChain" has claimed responsibility for the attack on darknet forums. They boast of having allegedly exfiltrated hundreds of gigabytes of data, including customer information and commercial contracts, threatening to publish it if the ransom is not paid.
This incident is a brutal reminder that in today's world, an attack on servers can have consequences as tangible and physical as a strike at a port. Critical infrastructure, including logistics, is an extremely attractive target for cybercriminals because every hour of downtime translates into enormous financial losses for the attacked company, pressuring them to pay the ransom as quickly as possible.
This is another in a series of ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure – we previously wrote about the attack on a US hospital network. Also learn about BlackCat 3.0 techniques, one of the most advanced ransomware groups.
Source: Reuters
Aleksander
About the Author
Aleksander Zębrowski
Chief Technology Officer at SecurHub.pl
PhD candidate in neuroscience. Psychologist and IT expert specializing in cybersecurity.
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