INTRODUZIONE Evento centrale del semestre di Presidenza Italiana del Consiglio d’Europa, il 13 maggio 2022 si è tenuta a Strasburgo, alla presenza del Ministro della Giustizia Marta Cartabia, la cerimonia di apertura per la firma del Secondo Protocollo Addizionale alla Convenzione di Budapest. La Convenzione – trattato internazionale di riferimento per l’azione di autorità giudiziarie ..
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Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic believes that the North Korean advanced persistent threat (APT) actor known as Lazarus Group is responsible for the recent theft of cryptocurrency from Atomic Wallet. A decentralized cryptocurrency wallet service with roughly five million users, Atomic is available on all major operating systems, including Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS. Atomic ..
U.S. and British cybersecurity officials warned Wednesday that a Russian cyber-extortion gang’s hack of a file-transfer program popular with corporations could have widespread global impact. Initial data-theft victims include the BBC, British Airways and Nova Scotia’s government. “This is potentially one of the most significant breaches of recent years,” said Brett Callow, an analyst at ..
Texas startup Keep Aware has attracted $2.4 million in early stage venture capital investment to work on technology to protect web browsers from malicious hacker attacks. Keep Aware, based in Austin, said the seed-stage funding was led by LiveOak Venture Partners. The company said Runtime Ventures and prominent angel investors in the cybersecurity industry also ..
Nelle intrusioni ransomware l’attaccante prende il controllo di un sistema ICT e chiede un riscatto per restituire la disponibilità e la confidenzialità delle informazioni memorizzate sul sistema. In dettaglio, l’attaccante cripta delle informazioni sul sistema attaccato e gli utenti potranno usare il sistema solo dopo aver pagato un riscatto per ottenere la chiave per decriptare. ..
Oggi la Commissione ha invitato le imprese, le pubbliche amministrazioni e altre organizzazioni a presentare proposte volte a rafforzare la resilienza dell’UE di fronte alle minacce informatiche e la capacità di proteggere da questi attacchi individuandoli e scoraggiandoli, promuovendo altresì la cooperazione tra gli Stati membri. La Commissione e il Centro europeo di competenza per ..
A Mirai botnet variant has been exploiting a recently patched vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-28771 to hack many Zyxel firewalls. The Taiwan-based networking device manufacturer informed customers about the security hole on April 25, when it announced the availability of patches for impacted ATP, VPN, USG Flex and ZyWALL/USG firewalls. The OS command injection vulnerability, found ..
A credential phishing campaign using the legitimate SuperMailer newsletter distribution app has doubled in size each month since January 2023. “In January this campaign was limited to only a handful of emails, but in May we have seen thousands reaching inboxes,” Brad Haas, cyber threat intelligence analyst at Cofense, told SecurityWeek. The campaign was discovered ..
A Wisconsin teenager has been charged with accessing tens of thousands of user accounts at a fantasy sports and betting website after launching a credential stuffing attack on the site. According to a six-count criminal complaint (PDF), the teenager, Joseph Garrison, of Wisconsin, launched the attack on the betting website on November 18, 2022, accessing ..
Cybersecurity firm eSentire says it has identified the second developer of Golden Chickens, a malware suite used by financially-motivated cybercrime groups Cobalt Group and FIN6. Offered under a malware-as-a-service (MaaS) model since 2018, Golden Chickens has been used by the Russia-based Cobalt Group and FIN6 cybercrime rings to target organizations in various industries, causing financial ..
