by Editorial Staff According to the Times, concerns are arising in England about national security following a multimillion-dollar agreement with a Chinese company to supply a supercomputer to a British government body. The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) of the UK Research and Innovation agency has announced that it will install a Lenovo supercomputer at the site […]
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by Editorial Staff Kiev's attacks against Russian territory are also extending into the cyber dimension, directly hitting Moscow, also implementing missile and drone raids in the border regions. Ukrainian sources report that a group of hackers from Kiev, probably with intelligence support, hacked the internet provider 'M9com', causing the [...]
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Hacker attacks are increasingly sophisticated, and one of the main goals of cybercriminals is to gain unauthorized access to sensitive accounts and information. Passwords are often the weak point in this process, but the use of a password manager can be an effective defense barrier. Hacker Attacks on Accounts: Hackers use […]
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The possibility that the entire satellite system could go haywire all at once and at the same time could be a reality not so much to overlook. In the blink of an eye mobile phones would stop chirping, navigation systems would crash, television screens would go blank and financial transactions would fail throwing all […]
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Nicastri: a program to implement digital skills is ready "The hacker attack claimed by the NoName057 collective, which in the last few hours has hit various institutional and corporate sites in our nation, represents a sign, yet another of how much the issue of cybersecurity has become priority for all of us. The timing of the pro-Russian group's offensive - underlines in a [...]
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Hacker attacks have continued incessantly in recent weeks against public and private health facilities but also against large Italian companies in the energy sector such as ENI and GSE. According to Biagino Costanzo, head of AIDR's Securty Observatory, it is very likely that it is no coincidence and that it is a project planned to target strategic infrastructures also [...]
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Some Chinese college students work in a secret technology society that has masked the true nature of the business from them: to seek out Western espionage targets and translate hacked documents. The Financial Times identified and contacted 140 potential translators, mostly recent graduates who studied English at public universities in Hainan, Sichuan and Xi'an. [...]
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The pro-Russian hacker group, Killnet, had threatened him on Telegram: on May 30th at 5.00 am an irreparable attack on Italy will start. In fact, our country in the last 24 hours has been targeted by the group that has launched a massive attack never experienced before. Our most representative structure, the Agency [...]
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“We will deliver an irreparable blow to Italy”, the threat of the pro-Russian hackers of the Killnet group. After having attacked in recent days the Senate, the Ministry of Defense, the Police, the CSM), companies and airports and the Eurovision platform (failed ed), now the threat appears more extensive and would tend to block the IT structure of the whole country. In the afternoon […]
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(by Andrea Pinto) A message appeared on most Ukrainian institutional computers: “Ukrainians, all your personal data has been deleted and it will not be possible to get them back. Be afraid, and expect the worst ". Thus the servers of important ministries such as that of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Education were violated. Late yesterday [...]
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A group of foreign hackers, probably linked to China, has managed to breach at least nine American organizations active in strategic sectors, such as defense, energy, health, technology and education. This was announced in a report by the cybersecurity agency Palo Alto Networks, drawn up with the participation of the National Security Agency (NSA). This group of cyber criminals is not [...]
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The Lazio Region tries to return, with great difficulty, to normalcy after having suffered the most massive hacker attack ever recorded in Italy. The vaccination booking platform has been reactivated and the vaccination registry is also operational: 3.000 requests have already been registered in a few hours. IT analysts and investigators, to what [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) All over the world there are large-scale hacker attacks, in some cases, targeting critical infrastructures causing serious problems that are difficult to solve immediately. A phenomenon that has shown, in a disarming way, the extreme vulnerability of States in the face of the virtual threat whose principal (often of state origin) is [...]
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The role of the National Cybersecurity Agency is essential (by Mauro Nicastri, President of Aidr) We will also remember the summer of 2021 for the cyber attacks that targeted hospitals, medical facilities and structures dealing with development and distribution of the Covid 19 vaccine. The latest episode involved [...]
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“Italy arrived late on the topic of cybersecurity”, the comment of the Delegated Authority for the security of the Republic Franco Gabrielli at the hearing of the Constitutional Affairs and Transport commissions of the Chamber. The next step is the conversion into law of the decree that regulates the Agency. In this regard Gabrielli specified: "We can no longer afford to waste time on an issue that may not [...]
read more(by Federica De Stefani, lawyer and head of Aidr Regione Lombardia) In 2019 the data of over 500 million registered users on Facebook ended up in the hands of hackers: the data breach is now a couple of years old, but the concern it arouses this subtraction is extremely current. Those data, in fact, despite the [...]
read more(by Andrea Pinto) Even the management of aqueducts over the years has passed from analog to digital systems. An innovative way to ensure the continuous control of water purity and save resources to pay employees who over time have had to leave their jobs in favor of a few more [...]
read moreThe Postal Police has identified the author of the largest cyber-financial attack in Italy, one of the largest ever in the world in the cryptocurrency sector: a 34-year-old Florentine responsible for a "hole" equal to 120 million euros on the hacked computer platform "BITGRAIL". Over 230 thousand savers scammed. The man is accused [...]
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A cyberattack, associated with a disinformation campaign, targeted the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) computer systems in what officials believe was an effort to undermine the U.S. response to the pandemic. from coronavirus. The cyber attack reportedly took place [...]
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Tensions between the US and Iran in the Strait of Hormuz have subsided but on the "web" it appears that Iranians are continuing their activity against US targets in the US and elsewhere. On Wednesday morning, the US Cyber Command tweeted that it had discovered "active malicious use" of a known bug in Microsoft [...]
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A group of hackers allegedly targeted European democratic institutions including think-tanks and nonprofits, ahead of the expected European parliamentary elections in May, Microsoft reported. On February 19, the IT company specified that a group called Strontium has targeted e-mail accounts of over 100 people [...]
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The largest Maltese bank had to close the branches of its branches across the island, blocking all operations and online accounts Massive hacker attack in Malta against Bank of Valletta. This was communicated in a note by the same bank that claimed to have suffered an IT intrusion with access [...]
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According to a cybersecurity company and the European Union, Russia "would have prepared the way" for the seizure of the Ukrainian navy ships, launching a major cyber attack on government sites and disinformation to public opinion. A private cybersecurity company claimed that Moscow would launch a series of cyber attacks against servers [...]
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The United States has indicted 10 people of Chinese nationality, including two intelligence officers, on suspicion of stealing technology from US and French aerospace companies by hacking into their computers. The accusation came 20 days after the Department of Justice obtained the unprecedented extradition of [...]
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(by Admiral Giuseppe De Giorgi) How many hacker attacks are carried out every day all over the world, and of these how many are directed towards Italy, towards our companies or our ministries? The Russian Kaspersky, one of the most famous cybersecurity companies, recently released a very attractive tool on the web called “Kaspersky [...]
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In the next few days, some hackers are reportedly engaged in preparing an "empty ATM" attack, to be carried out on a global scale. According to reports from "CNN", the alarm was raised by the FBI, according to which cybercriminals could act in the coming weekend when the reaction capacity of banking institutions is slowed down. The timing was also confirmed [...]
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A cyber hacker working with an American cybersecurity company reported the discovery of a "highly active" Iranian cyber espionage group whose vast target list consists mainly of large organizations and companies in the Middle East. The computer security company Symantec, creator of Norton antivirus software, which has [...]
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The head of the German internal security agency has publicly accused the Russian government of a large-scale cyber attack that allegedly targeted German energy suppliers. The allegations follow an announcement on 13 June by the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), charged with protecting the government's electronic communications […]
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(by Alessandro Rugolo) The WebStresser.org site was deactivated yesterday following a joint operation by the Dutch police, the British National Crime Agency, Europol and law enforcement agencies from various countries around the world. On the Webstresser.org site, subscription "services" of DDoS (Distributed Denial of service) were sold starting from a minimum of 15,00 [...]
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One of Japan's largest digital currency exchanges reports it has lost around $ 534 million (£ 380 million) of virtual money in a hacking attack on its network. This is Coincheck where deposits and withdrawals have been suspended for all crypto-currencies except Bitcoin as it has evaluated [...]
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If you're planning a weekend on Netflix while chilling out with loved ones, be aware that the branding is used by scammers to frame unsuspecting users! Phishers have been targeting this popular brand for a year, trying to trick users into handing over their credentials and payment information, […]
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Kane Gamble aged 15, English, in these days at trial in London, his story looks like a movie and maybe it will become one. From Leicester, from his little room he entered the top secret systems of the CIA and FBI. From June 2015 to February 2016 Ken managed to steal passwords, information on the private life of [...]
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According to the Nova Agency, the US Department of Defense said the theft of a large number of classified military documents suffered by Seoul, including the latest version of the plan for joint South Korea-US operations in wartime and an emergency plan of the two countries to "behead" the leadership of Pyongyang, [...]
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Russia active to interfere with elections in Germany: German intelligence at work to prevent hybrid attacks The Bavarian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution (LFV) warns that in the elections in 2017 (parliamentary elections of 24 September 2017) and 2018 (election state in Bavaria in autumn 2018) strengthened the websites of [...]
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