L’età media degli hacker arrestati negli Stati Uniti è precipitata a 19 anni, rispetto ai 37 anni per tutti gli altri crimini, secondo il Supervisory Special Agent William McKeen dell’FBI (maggio 2024), e il 61% dei giovani coinvolti nel cybercrime ha iniziato a sperimentare con tecnologie prima dei 16 anni secondo la UK National Crime ..
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In questo articolo esaminiamo il ruolo dell’Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) nel panorama informativo attuale, analizzando questo approccio si inserisca nel più ampio contesto della gestione e dell’utilizzo delle informazioni pubblicamente accessibili. Il contenuto fa parte di una serie di approfondimenti redatti da Marta Zeroni incentrati sulla complessa tematica della sovraesposizione e del controllo sui dati ..
Le cyber-operazioni israeliane hanno trasformato radicalmente i conflitti moderni, dimostrando che tastiere e codici possono infliggere danni paragonabili alle armi cinetiche. Al cuore di questo arsenale digitale si trova l’Unità 8200, una forza d’élite di intelligence dei segnali che ha orchestrato alcune delle operazioni più sofisticate della storia, dal noto caso di Stuxnet agli attacchi ..
Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) and Mandiant have continued to analyze the recent Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) extortion campaign and their researchers have identified some of the pieces of malware deployed in the attacks. The attacks came to light on October 2, when GTIG and Mandiant warned that executives at many organizations using Oracle EBS ..
A significant number of organizations have received extortion emails from hackers who claim to have stolen sensitive information from their Oracle E-Business Suite instances, Google’s Threat Intelligence Group and Mandiant unit warn. Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) is a suite of integrated business applications used by large organizations to automate and manage business processes. Oracle says ..
Japanese brewing giant Asahi Group Holdings on Monday announced that its operations in the country have been disrupted by a cyberattack. The incident, the company said, resulted in system failures that affected orders and shipments at all its subsidiaries in the country, as well as call center operations, customer service desks included. Reuters reported that ..
Two teenage boys were arrested in the Netherlands over suspicions of spying for pro-Russian hackers, Dutch authorities announced. The two 17-year-old boys were allegedly approached by the hackers on Telegram, a messaging application popular among cybercriminals and state-sponsored threat actors. According to local media, one of the boys was allegedly seen walking by Europol and ..
A crackdown on cybercrime coordinated by Interpol has led to the arrests across 14 African countries of 260 people suspected in online romance and extortion scams, the organization announced Friday. The operation took place in July and August and focused on scams in which perpetrators build online romantic relationships to extract money from targets or ..
Authorities in the UK have arrested and charged two individuals for their alleged roles in the infamous hacking group Scattered Spider. One of them has been charged in the US as well. The suspects, Thalha Jubair, 19, from East London, and Owen Flowers, 18, from Walsall, West Midlands, were charged in the UK for a ..
Nel panorama contemporaneo della cybersecurity, caratterizzato da minacce in costante evoluzione e attacchi sempre più sofisticati, l’approccio noto come “security by obscurity” o “sicurezza tramite oscuramento” rappresenta una metodologia controversa e spesso inefficace. Questo articolo esamina criticamente tale strategia, analizzandone le limitazioni intrinseche, i rischi associati e le alternative più efficaci nel contesto della protezione ..