We heard that the Port of Barcelona suffers an attack of hackers last week (20th Sep 2018). The logistics and transportation industry lure hackers’ interest because they can extort ransom.

There is no official or incident details announcement till today. The following details merely my personal imagination of this incident. Any resemblance to actual events or persons is entirely coincidental.

We noticed that Portic Barcelona uses WebLogic for Private PaaS in 2014. The solution aim to enhance the performance and facilitates interaction between its members through its information services to logistics agents and other customers.

What if below vulnerability occurs, do you think the scenario whether will have similarity to the incident.

ORACLE WEBLOGIC SERVER JAVA DESERIALIZATION REMOTE CODE EXECUTION VULNERABILITY (CVE-2018-2628) BYPASS

Headline News article for reference.

https://www.portseurope.com/barcelona-port-suffers-a-cyber-attack/