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 ..
Tag : Cybercrime
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 ..
So far in 2023, layoffs have resulted in tens of thousands of tech workers losing their jobs. And that’s just in tech. Across sectors, employees are feeling the ramifications of economic uncertainty. Ransomware attacks are continuing and growing more sophisticated. And it’s not only the attacks that are growing more sophisticated; so are cybercrime recruitment ..
Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev, a 30-year-old Russian national, has been charged by the US Justice Department for his alleged role in numerous ransomware attacks, including ones targeting critical infrastructure. Matveev — known online as Wazawaka, m1x, Boriselcin, and Uhodiransomwar — has been charged with conspiring to transmit ransom demands, conspiring to damage protected computers, and intentionally ..
Il grande successo registrato dalla Cyber Crime Conference, svoltasi l’11 e 12 maggio all’Auditorium della Tecnica di Roma, segna il ritorno alla tradizione del nostro storico evento sulle minacce informatiche. Per gli oltre 1000 partecipanti è stata un’occasione unica per ascoltare specialisti di fama mondiale e confrontarsi con altri professionisti – tutti di altissimo livello ..
National pharmacy network PharMerica last week started sending out notification letters to more than 5.8 million individuals to disclose a data breach that occurred in March. Owned by BrightSpring Health, a provider of home and community-based health services, PharMerica operates over 2,500 facilities across the US and offers more than 3,100 pharmacy and healthcare programs. ..
The Philadelphia Inquirer experienced the most significant disruption to its operations in 27 years due to what the newspaper calls a cyberattack. The company was working to restore print operations after a cyber incursion that prevented the printing of the newspaper’s Sunday print edition, the Inquirer reported on its website. The news operation’s website was ..
