Save an important Venetian company. The immediate intervention of the specialized investigators of the postal police is essential. The State Police of Verona intervened following the report of a manager of an important economic reality operating in the Verona province regarding a possible scam carried out via the network. The staff of the company's accounting office had in fact been [...]
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Operation Ontario 3 As part of a complex operation aimed at combating online child pornography, the State Police has carried out, in recent days, 21 searches in the Lombardy provinces of Como, Lodi, Monza Brianza, Milan, Pavia and Varese, allowing the arrest of 4 people in flagrante delicto for possession of a large quantity of child pornography material and [...]
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The State Police of Turin has carried out two precautionary custody orders issued by the Judge for Preliminary Investigations of the Court of Turin against two subjects who, in the investigative hypothesis, were responsible in various capacities for stalking a victim who had expressed his experience in […]
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This morning the State Police executed a seizure decree through blackout of 473 online resources relating to websites, accounts and advertisements on a well-known social platform. These resources advertised and promoted false financial investments through online trading platforms, offered to an indistinct public. The […]
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For over 3 years he contacted underage girls on various social networks and messaging platforms to obtain, through threats and blackmail, self-produced, sexually explicit images. In Italy alone there were more than 50 victims, who turned to the State Police seeking help. The detailed investigations, initiated and coordinated by [...]
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The investigators of the State Police on duty at the Operational Center for Cyber Security of the Postal Police of Liguria, coordinated by the Public Prosecutor's Office at the Court of Genoa, carried out the precautionary measure of custody in prison against a 42-year-old foreign woman believed to be the Italian terminal of a complex organization dedicated to […]
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Thanks to a complex and detailed judicial police activity that lasted almost a year and ended at the end of September with the application of precautionary custody in prison for two young men, one Italian and one of Ecuadorian origins - respectively residents in the provinces of Cremona and Monza Brianza – the investigators of the Milan Postal Police […]
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The State Police, at the end of a lightning-fast investigation starting from a report from the collateral Australian police body, arrested a thirty-six-year-old Roman for aggravated sexual assault against a 10-year-old minor, as well as for the production, transfer and possession of a large number of files of child pornography. The arrest took place after [...]
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The protection of critical IT infrastructures from attacks aimed at compromising its functionality is a mission entrusted to the State Police, with the Postal and Communications Police which operates through the National Anti-IT Crime Center for the Protection of Critical Infrastructures (CNAIPIC) - point of contact national and international for critical events aimed [...]
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The agreement between the State Police and the same was signed today in Rome, during the "Italy 2023 Mission", the national event organized by the Anci - National Association of Italian Municipalities and dedicated to the PNRR of Municipalities and Cities Association for the protection of networks and information systems supporting the essential functions of the Anci [...]
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They experimented with explosive mixtures with chemicals purchased on the internet whose effects were documented with the publication of photos and videos on social networks. Thanks to a complex judicial police activity, conducted between October 2022 and February 2023, the investigators of the Milan have identified some Telegram spaces used [...]
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32 victims identified. Over 400 thousand euros stolen The State Police of Rome arrested eight people in execution of an application order of precautionary measures issued by the GIP of Rome for aggravated fraud, money laundering and impersonation. The investigations conducted by the investigators of the Cyber Security Operations Center in Rome, coordinated by [...]
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The Postal Police have charged a 54-year-old man from Frascati with the crime of impersonation and illegal possession of weapons, suspected of having deceived a young unemployed man, promising him a job and for having brought discredit on the Vatican Gendarmerie. The suspect, having learned of the aspirations of the unemployed young man, presented himself falsely [...]
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The Cybernetic Security Operations Centers of the State Police take the field to protect Christmas gift purchases. Based on the experience acquired in protecting against the risk of fraud, the Postal Police has renewed its guide with practical advice and useful suggestions for buying online with greater peace of mind. The race has now begun […]
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Reported by the state police 30-year-old youtuber who instigated a fourteen-year-old girl to commit suicide The State Police reported a youtuber, obscuring his channel, for instigating the suicide of a fourteen-year-old girl. In particular, the men of the Cybernetic Security Operations Section of the Postal Police of Ravenna and Bologna, coordinated [...]
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The State Police of the Cyber Security Operations Center of the Pescara Postal Police conducted an operation called "POISON", coordinated by the Public Prosecutor's Office at the Juvenile Court of L'Aquila, for the dissemination and possession of child pornography material that led to the identification and reporting of 7 minors. The investigation, triggered by the CNCPO [...]
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A tour of meetings with students, families and school communities is underway. Present the Minister Bianchi and the Chief of Police Giannini Ministry of Education and Postal Police will be tomorrow in Gragnano (Na), at the "Fucini-Roncalli" Institute, for a meeting of comparison with students, families, school community on Internet security, conscious use of new technologies, bullying [...]
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Pedophile arrested red-handed by the State Police, to frame him an undercover agent. He was luring his victims on Instagram and asking for paid sexual services Last Saturday, in Cagliari, the State Police arrested a 42-year-old worker from Quartu Sant'Elena (CA), with a clean record, whom he had lured on Instagram eleven days ago [...]
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The State Police and Airbnb renew the prevention campaign to help those who approach online bookings for the first time to recognize and stay away from the most common fraud attempts. Because if booking holiday accommodation online is easy, you have to deal with the possibility of [...]
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The collaboration and partnership between the State Police and Rai is consolidated to ensure safety during the conduct of international events. The hackers tried to infiltrate the opening night and the final. The activation of an operations room dedicated to the Eurovision event in which CNAIPIC technicians and police specialists [...]
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The State Police arrested a 21-year-old boy for crimes of child pornography against adolescents aged between 12 and 16 The policemen of the Postal Police Section of Foggia and of the Postal and Communications Police Department of Rome yesterday implemented the order of [...]
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The State Police, as part of the information monitoring of the internet carried out by the Postal and Communications Police following the news of the death of the President of the European Parliament David Sassoli, on various Telegram channels, Facebook and Twitter profiles (with the hashtag # no correlation), found the publication of numerous hateful messages, inspired by conspiracy theories "No Vax" according to [...]
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The State Police, as part of a vast operation conducted throughout the national territory, carried out 29 searches against as many people belonging to NO VAX - NO GREEN PASS associations, against which crimes ranging, depending on the different individual positions, from the constitution and participation in a secret association, to instigation [...]
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The Postal Police, coordinated by the Public Prosecutor's Office at the Court of Genoa, arrested a 40-year-old Russian woman, who has been resident in the Ligurian capital for years, as she belongs to a transnational organization dedicated to computer fraud, receiving stolen goods and money laundering. In everyday life, she was a quiet family mother, actually, behind an apparent [...]
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"I gut you!" "If I catch you I'll give you so many blows ..." "How many blows I would give you ..." The insults and anonymous threats that the President of the Liguria Region Toti received every day, for more than a month, on his social accounts were of this nature . The Genoa State Police, coordinated by the Public Prosecutor's Office [...]
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This morning, two precautionary orders were carried out by the Salerno State Police and the Judicial Police Section at the Public Prosecutor's Office for Minors, with which the Judge for preliminary investigations, at the request of the Public Prosecutor at the Court for minors of Salerno has ordered [...]
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7 reported; 1 arrested in the provinces of Naples, Rome, Foggia and Cosenza The Naples State Police, as part of an articulated operation aimed at combating online child pornography, denounced 7 people held responsible for the detention and dissemination of child pornography material. The investigation activity, coordinated by the Postal and Communications Police Service of Rome [...]
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The State Police arrested a Nigerian in Faenza who had raped and seriously injured a woman in Germany inside a center for asylum seekers and then fled to Italy. Personnel of the Postal Police executed a European arrest warrant, issued by the German authorities and received thanks to the impulse of [...]
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The commitment of the State Police in the fight against online child pornography continues unabated in Lombardy: 7 reported, 4 of whom arrested At the end of an articulated and complex judicial police operation aimed at combating online child pornography, the investigators of the Postal Police and Communications of Milan searched 7 subjects - all in the area [...]
read more1.500.000 users with illegal subscriptions blacked out. Eliminated 80% of the illegal flow of IP TV in Italy. 45 under investigation for criminal association aimed at abusive access to the computer system, computer fraud and reproduction and dissemination via the Internet of intellectual property. An illegal turnover of millions of euros to the detriment of Sky, DAZN, Mediaset, [...]
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In the last year and a half, the pandemic has affected the lives of all of us, changing habits, rhythms and ways of working in a very short time, imposing limits and rules on socialization and conditioning the development of all aspects of our daily life. The little ones have undergone a disruption of their world: they have all been [...]
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The Postal Police of Potenza, as part of the activity of contrasting the solicitation of minors online, directed by the local Public Prosecutor's Office and coordinated by the National Center for the Fight against Online Child Pornography (CNCPO) of the Postal and Communications Police Service, concluded two separate operations with the arrest of two Potentines for sexual violence and child pornography. Both, a [...]
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The State Police relentlessly continues its activities to combat online child pornography, especially in this period of health emergency, characterized by an exponential increase in cybercrime. Investigators from the Florence Postal Police, coordinated by the Florence Public Prosecutor's Office, arrested a 45-year-old man from the province of Pistoia, who was a repeat offender, and [...]
read moreThere are very many customers of credit institutions with home banking operations who are victims of fraudulent transactions, handled through sophisticated smishing techniques; from December to today there have been many complaints received by the Postal Police from citizens who have been affected by this phenomenon, for a total amount of almost 500.000 euros [...]
read more71st Italian Song Festival: 4 cyber attacks rejected by the State Police during live television The security of the Sanremo Festival is not just physical security and never before has the protection of the network infrastructure in support of the event been as important as this year singing. The collaboration and partnership between the Police is consolidated [...]
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In relation to the diffusion on social platforms of the video of a trapper singer in the title of which a well-known German car manufacturer is sponsored, praising death threats against law enforcement agencies, the Department of Public Security, in expressing indignation and firm condemnation for the messages and images of violence contained, he communicates that he [...]
read moreVarese. 2-year-old arrested in possession of child pornography material A 28-year-old from the province of Varese arrested by the postal police for possession of large quantities of child pornography material The investigators of the Postal and Communications Police of Varese, following a search delegated by the Milan Public Prosecutor, have a 28-year-old was arrested red-handed for large detention [...]
read moreExtraordinary record of adhesions for the State Police and Unieuro event dedicated to the fight against cyberbullying State Police and Unieuro today starting from 10.00 am will be live streaming on the policedistato.it website, cuoriconnessi.it and also on the official youtube channel of the State Police, for #cuoriconnessi, a great digital event on the occasion [...]
read moreThe befana of the State Police also made a stop this year at the A. Gemelli IRCCS University Hospital in Rome. The special Befana, accompanied by police from the Police Headquarters and the Postal Police, brought small gifts and chocolate kisses to the children hospitalized in the Pediatric Oncology and Child Neurosurgery wards. To welcome the Befana of [...]
read moreThe State Police takes the field for the protection of online Christmas shopping: from the experience acquired in the protection from the risks of fraud by the Postal and Communications Police, a guide with practical advice and suggestions for buying online with greater peace of mind. The race to buy Christmas gifts has now begun! What better [...]
read moreThe State Police takes the field for the protection of online Christmas shopping: from the experience acquired in the protection from the risks of fraud by the Postal and Communications Police, a guide with practical advice and suggestions for buying online with greater peace of mind. The race to buy Christmas gifts has now begun! What better [...]
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The Postal Police of Bologna and Milan, coordinated by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Bologna, reported 12 people, 5 of whom were arrested for criminal association aimed at aggravated fraud. The complex investigation carried out by the Postal Police has made it possible to identify the authors of a criminal association aimed at the purchase and sale of clothing through [...]
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The Postal Police of Palermo and Trapani carried out three searches against as many subjects, inhabitants of the centers of Marsala and Petrosino, for “revenge porn” and other crimes against at least six young women. The subjects, all aged between 30 and 36, would have received and disclosed [...]
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He used the SACAL plants to "extract" cryptocurrencies The Postal Police of Reggio Calabria and Catanzaro denounced an employee of the Calabrese Airport Company who used SACAL facilities to "extract" cryptocurrencies. The man, attracted by the mirage of the earnings offered by the new opportunities of information technology, had taken advantage of his job position within the airport [...]
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Arrested 52 years old for child pornography The Postal Police of Genoa, as part of the activities to prevent and combat crimes relating to violence against minors, arrested an unemployed 52-year-old Italian citizen for detention of large quantities of material produced through sexual exploitation of children even at an early age. The Operators [...]
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Preliminary custody in prison carried out by the Postal Police of Turin An articulated investigation concerning financial crime and in particular computer fraud carried out with the "man in the" technique ends with the execution of a precautionary custody order in prison. middle ", one of the most advanced digital pitfalls that threaten [...]
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With reference to the phenomenon of "hate speech" on the net, with the steadily increasing diffusion of messages inciting hatred by anonymous haters, last February, the Honorable Lucia Annibali, following the proposal of a amendment to the so-called “Milleproroghe” decree was the target of numerous insults and attacks via social networks. [...]
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The State Police of Catania and Messina, coordinated by the District Prosecutor of Messina, conducted an activity against on-line child pornography which ended, at the moment, with six people under investigation for detention and disclosure of child pornography. The investigations were carried out by the Postal Police under the direction of the National Center for the On-line Pedo Pornography (CNCPO) of [...]
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Postal Police: Operation "Summer No Like" Operation to combat online child pornography: 9 people reported The Postal Police has completed a complex and delicate investigation with the complaint of 9 people, for the crimes of disclosure, transfer, possession of child pornography material and for aggravated incitement to crime. The investigation activity originated [...]
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A network of Italian pedophiles who exchanged child pornography material on a well-known messaging platform was routed by the Postal Police. The images were also made by teenagers and sold online with a "price list" for each service requested. Over 100 investigators from the National Center for the Protection of Minors of the Postal Police Service of Rome and [...]
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Milan: Operation "Mala fides". the Postal Police dismantles a criminal group engaged in online fraud and scams. The Postal Police carried out 4 precautionary measures, issued by the GIP of the Court of Milan at the request of the local Public Prosecutor's Office, against as many subjects (specifically two men and one woman were [...]
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The Postal and Communications Police concluded a complex and delicate investigation that led to the denunciation of 20 minors in a state of freedom, in competition with each other, for the crimes of detention, disclosure, transfer of child pornography and incitement to crime aggravated. The activity was carried out by the policemen of the Postal Police Department [...]
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The Postal and Communications Police with the coordination of the Genoa Public Prosecutor's Office is carrying out a vast operation against one of the most important international criminal organizations dedicated to the commission of cyber attacks aimed at computer fraud and money laundering. The policemen of the Financial Cybercrime sector of the Postal Police, in collaboration with [...]
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A network of Italian pedophiles who exchanged pornographic material made using minors under the age of eighteen on a well-known messaging platform vanquished by the Postal Police Over 200 investigators from the National Center for the Fight against Online Child Pornography and from the Postal and Communications Police Department of Turin have conducted a complex operation to combat child pornography [...]
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The collaboration between the Postal and Communications Police, the National Consumers Union and Subito continues, taking the field to inform citizens and offer concrete tools capable of developing virtuous behavior on the web. 2020 will be a different summer for many Italians. After the difficult period of lockdown, the desire for a holiday becomes [...]
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They steal the identity of a well-known television journalist and get over 100 thousand euros from financial companies - a gang of cyber criminals operating throughout the country identified and defeated Last year a well-known television journalist turned to the State Police, realizing that three loans were active in his name [...]
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Beware of phone calls from fake credit card issuing companies The Postal and Communications Police informs that, in the last period, complaints from citizens in relation to unauthorized charges on their credit cards are increasing, in consequence of scams by telephone known to the postal police [...]
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With the beginning of the so-called "Phase 2" of the health emergency linked to COVID-19, many companies are starting up again and to comply with the required safety standards, demonstrating a great sense of responsibility towards their employees, they try to obtain supplies as soon as possible possible time of Personal Protective Equipment. It is precisely in the need to quickly find [...]
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The State Police of Cagliari denounced three people, directors of companies based in Brescia and in the province of Salerno, responsible for the crimes of fraud in the exercise of trade and material forgery committed by the private individual in certificates. Operation Mask, launched in the context of combating the marketing of PPE to be used for the COVID-19 emergency, was conducted [...]
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Revenge Porn: the administrators of the Telegram channels reported "rape your sister 2.0, the gospel of the hair and the bible 5.0" Following a detailed investigation coordinated by the Postal and Communications Police Service and which involved the Prosecutors at the Court Ordinary of Milan, Palermo, Bergamo and the Public Prosecutor's Office at the Court [...]
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The Coronavirus does not stop web criminals, who have no qualms about taking advantage of the risk of an ongoing epidemic to engineer new and insidious computer fraud. The Postal and Communications Police Service monitors, in these hours, with particular attention, in search of cyber threats scattered throughout the network, which exploit the [...]
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In a scenario in which continuous technological evolution influences every action of our daily life, the efforts of the Postal and Communications Police in 2019 were constantly aimed at preventing and combating cybercrime in general, with particular reference to crimes of main competence of this specialty. CNCPO The frenetic pace [...]
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From the first light of dawn this morning, the State Police has been carrying out a vast international operation called "Eclipse", coordinated by the Public Prosecutor's Office in Rome and, internationally, by the European Agencies Eurojust and Europol. The operation aims to dismantle and obscure the phenomenon of the so-called IPTV, a system which, by converting the analogue signal of paytv, [...]
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In a scenario in which continuous technological evolution influences every action of our daily life, the efforts of the Postal and Communications Police during the summer of 2019 were constantly aimed at preventing and combating cybercrime in general. In particular, there is a continuous and assiduous monitoring activity against the [...]
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As part of the activities to combat on-line child pornography, the Postal and Communications Police Department of Florence has recorded a growing increase in the crimes of soliciting minors through the use of online games, on platforms that to date they have millions of users. It was found that the methods of solicitation usually take place through [...]
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As part of an investigation coordinated by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Rome, the men of the Postal and Communications Police of Rome carried out a coercive precautionary measure issued against a 52-year-old man, NM, driver of buses used for transport for disabled, accused of sexual acts with a thirteen year old. The investigation was launched in [...]
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Following an articulated investigation activity validly carried out by the Teramo Postal Police under the direction of this Public Prosecutor's Office, the Judge for preliminary investigations issued an application order of the precautionary measure prohibiting the suspension from public service for the duration of six months towards a teacher at a kindergarten [...]
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The Catania State Police carried out a precautionary custody order against three people under investigation for extortion and aggravated fraud in competition. In particular, two were recipients of the measure in prison and one placed under house arrest. The investigations of the Postal Police policemen originate from the complaint of a [...]
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Concluded an investigation coordinated by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Rome, and conducted by investigators of the Postal and Communications Police Service, which dismantled a complex criminal organization dedicated to corruption for the release of Italian citizenship. The complex investigative and judicial process was recently concluded with the signing of the first [...]
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The total amount of money that the men of the Venetian Postal and Communications Police Department in Venice managed to identify and block, preventing the illicit availability by criminals, amounts to about one million euros. The criminal phenomenon is commonly referred to as "MAN IN THE MIDDLE" or "BEC". In these […]
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The Postal and Communications Police met the small patients admitted to the Pediatric Oncology Department of the Policlinico Umberto I University Hospital in Rome. The Postal Police has always been at the side of the new generations for a safe, conscious and responsible use of the internet and social networks. All the more reason for children, adolescents [...]
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In the morning today, the men of the Postal and Communications Police of Rome carried out a coercive precautionary measure issued against a minor accused of attempted aggravated and continued extortion. The investigation was launched following the complaint presented to the Postal Police by the mother of a 17-year-old boy to whom the suspect had requested [...]
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The "Rights Desk": beware and do not click, it is a fraud. The alert also on the "PS On Line Commissariat" of the Postal Police False promises continue to run online. Not only on instant messaging apps, but also Facebook becomes a receptacle for scam attempts such as that of the fake 1000 euro "Amazon Gift Card" [...]
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The music? Young people today listen to it almost only on the move, using the tools they have in their hands for most of the day. According to a survey carried out by Skuola.net for Una Vita da Social - the itinerant campaign for a correct use of the Internet by the Postal Police which in these days will stop in Sanremo [...]
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The agreement between the State Police and Alitalia was signed today in Rome for the prevention and fight against computer crimes involving information systems and services of particular importance for the country. The agreement, signed by the Chief of Police-Director General of Public Security, Franco Gabrielli, and by the Extraordinary Commissioners [...]
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In a scenario in which continuous technological evolution influences every action of our daily life, the commitment of the Postal and Communications Police in 2018 was constantly aimed at preventing and combating cybercrime in general, with particular reference to crimes of the main competence of this specialty. CNCPO In the field of online child pornography, [...]
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As part of a detailed investigation activity in which the Postal and Communications Police Service collaborated with Europol and counterparts of the European foreign police forces, a new decryption tool was developed and released, published free of charge on www.nomoreransom.org ( Europol portal dedicated to the subject and cyber support), which allows [...]
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The Catania Postal Police, coordinated by the Catania District Prosecutor's Office, coordinated a vast operation against on-line child pornography, which ended with 15 Italians reported, including 1 arrested, and about 200 foreigners who will be reported to the authorities of various countries . The operation called "Showcase", carried out by the Postal Police of Catania under the [...]
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The Postal Police informs that a massive spamming activity is underway for extortion purposes with the sending of emails in which users are informed of the hacking of their email account by an international group of criminals. This email communicates that the account would have been hacked through the inoculation of a virus [...]
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The 5th edition of "Una vita da social", the itinerant educational campaign on the themes of social networks, with a special stage for the children and parents of the Bambino Gesù, ended in Rome. An itinerant tour of 50 stages on the national and European territory 1 young out of 3 in panic when he runs out of jig [...]
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Computer Fraud The Postal and Communications Police has always been at the forefront of the fight against "Financial Cybercrime", the criminal sphere which with the advent of the new economy, in an increasingly globalized world, has become more dangerous and sneaky than ever. In 2013, with the aim of preventing and combating this criminal phenomenon, [...]
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The specialists of the Section for the fight against "Cyberterrorism" of the Postal and Communications Police Service and of the Trieste Department, in close operational connection with the Digos of the Friulian capital and Udine, have brought to conclusion a complex technical-investigative activity, started in December 2016 and aimed at identifying the members of the channel [...]
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Recently, the topic of fake news has become a hot topic, especially in the period of political elections: Facebook and Twitter are under accusation, which over the years have proved to be perfect sounding boards for false news. With the aim of obtaining easy views through the publication of sensational news, publishers publish hoaxes aiming to earn [...]
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In a scenario in which continuous technological evolution influences every action of our daily life, the effort of the Postal and Communications Police in 2017 was constantly aimed at preventing and combating cybercrime in general, with particular reference to crimes that , also in the face of the Directive of the Minister of the Interior of [...]
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