About the Speaker

In this paper, I detail how a ship could be hacked and taken over by an attacker(remote or local). And yes, that time we took control of a few dozen ships. The title isn’t to be seen as us bragging, rather, it is a reflection of the lack of any cybersecurity aboard most vessels that are currently out at sea. This paper is therefore to be taken extremely seriously. There is plenty of past research and articles that exist and allude to these being possible. We have, however, not seen anyone manage to demonstrate this end-to-end. The only work that shows how this could be done is two talks on YouTube. One is Hacking Ships by Ken Munro, and the other is Pentesting Cruise Ships OR Hacking the High Seas by Chad M. Dewey.

Our contribution is to demonstrate that an external, unauthorised, and unauthenticated attacker can gain access to a ship's safety-critical systems. Once this is done, the attacker can complete the takeover of the vessel and possibly sink/damage it. We have also developed malware that can do this, ie, converting a ship into a floating weapon. This isn’t just a collection of news articles stating that this could happen. Rather, this is us proving that this will happen, if it hasn’t happened already! Perhaps the premise behind Speed 2 wasn’t so far-fetched after all!

Jaden is a hacker, artist, and musician. Currently working as a security engineer at R.U.D.R.A. Cybersecurity Pvt Ltd

Founder - R.U.D.R.A. - a deep-tech Cybersecurity products and

services company. Started solely by me in 2020, today, we are a

team of 25 serving clients across 6 countries with two global offices.

My love for technology has driven me to create with passion and

deliver with perfection. As the leader of a security business, I

prioritise trust, exceptional skillsets and a culture of continued

growth and learning for my team and for myself. In this ever

changing technological landscape, one must wake up as a student

every single morning.

I have extensive experience working with Government, Law

enforcement, Enterprise and NGO's across a variety of industries

ranging from Power & Energy, Finance to Maritime, Healthcare and

everything in between. My journey with computers began at the

tender age of 5 back in the early 90's. I've seen the evolution of the

internet unfold under my watch.