L’inchiesta “Vulkan Files” svela come la società russa Vulkan, che si occupa di sviluppo software e sicurezza informatica, lavori per i servizi segreti russi realizzando armi informatiche e fornendo servizi all’intelligence russa. I documenti, che fanno riferimento al periodo che va dal 2016 al 2021, provengono da un informatore anonimo probabilmente interno alla NTC Vulkan ..
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«La guerra si fonda sull’inganno»L’Arte della Guerra, Sun Tzu Il social engineering – o ingegneria sociale – è una disciplina che sfrutta processi cognitivi di influenzamento, inganno e manipolazione per indurre una persona a compiere un’azione o a comunicare informazioni riservate. La storia è Maestra di vita, e l’arte di ingannare l’avversario non si sviluppa ..
Australian casino giant Crown Resorts this week confirmed that the Cl0p ransomware group contacted them to claim the theft of data as part of the GoAnywhere attack. The incident occurred in late January, when a zero-day vulnerability in Fortra’s GoAnywhere managed file transfer (MFT) software was exploited to access files belonging to Fortra customers. The ..
A Nigerian national was sentenced this week to four years and one month in prison in the US for his role in a business email compromise (BEC) fraud scheme. The man, Solomon Ekunke Okpe, 31, of Lagos, participated in multiple BEC, credit card, work-from-home, check-cashing, and romance scams targeting banks, businesses, and individuals in the ..
The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has been running several fake DDoS-for-hire websites in an effort to infiltrate the cybercrime marketplace and collect information on individuals engaging in these types of activities. The law enforcement agency has set up an unspecified number of websites that claim to allow users to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks ..
The Australian Federal Police on Friday announced the arrest of four individuals accused of being involved in business email compromise (BEC) and other types of online fraud. The group, authorities say, orchestrated more than 15 sophisticated cybercrime attacks and allegedly operated approximately 180 bank accounts to support criminal activities. Between January, 2020, and March, 2023, ..
Criminals are set to take advantage of artificial intelligence like ChatGPT to commit fraud and other cybercrimes,Europe’s policing agency warned on Monday. From phishing to disinformation and malware, the rapidly evolving abilities of chatbots will be used not only to better mankind, but to scam it too, Europol said in a new report. Created by ..
The US Justice Department said Friday it had charged the founder of BreachForums, a major underground website for computer hackers that had published large amounts of data stolen from Twitter. Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, 20, of Peekskill, New York, was charged with hacking conspiracy for running BreachForums, which the Justice Department said claimed to have more ..
Mar 24, 2023 Marina Londei Approfondimenti, Eventi, Gestione dati, Mercato, Minacce, RSS 0 Quanto siamo “dataconsapevoli”? Con questa domanda si è aperto l’evento Attiva Incontra di Attiva Evolution, un’occasione di confronto per cercare di capire se le aziende sono consapevoli del valore dei propri dati e se hanno intrapreso il cammino giusto per gestirli e ..
An administrator of the popular cybercrime forum BreachForums has announced the shutdown of the website following the arrest of Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, who was allegedly running the portal. Also known as Breached, BreachForums was launched roughly a year ago, as an alternative to the cybercrime marketplace RaidForums, which was seized by US authorities in February ..
