Spanish authorities this week announced the arrest of 40 individuals for their roles in a criminal organization that performed bank fraud, document forgery, identity theft, and money laundering. Two of the individuals, the authorities say, were in charge of carrying out online bank fraud, while 15 others were involved in other illegal activities. Called ‘Trinitarians’, ..
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Nickolas Sharp, the former Ubiquiti employee who posed as a hacker and attempted to extort nearly $2 million from the company, has been sentenced to six years in prison. In addition to the prison sentence, Sharp will be under supervised release for three years and will have to pay more than $1.5 million in restitution. ..
Prende ufficialmente il via il centro europeo di competenza in materia di cibersicurezza (ECCC), il centro con cui l’Unione mira a sostenere l’innovazione e la politica industriale in materia di cibersicurezza, nonché a sviluppare e coordinare i progetti di sicurezza informatica dell’UE. Oggi è stata inaugurata la sua nuova sede a Bucarest, in Romania, presso ..
The US Department of Justice this week announced the takedown of card-checking platform ‘Try2Check’ and charges against its Russian administrator. The individual, Denis Gennadievich Kulkov, 43, created the platform in 2005 and operated it until the takedown. The US is offering a $10 million reward for information leading to his capture. According to the indictment ..
Russian cybercrime group FIN7 has been observed exploiting unpatched Veeam Backup & Replication instances in recent attacks, cybersecurity company WithSecure reports. Around since at least 2015 and also referred to as Anunak, and Carbanak, FIN7 is a financially motivated group mainly focused on credit card information theft. Security researchers believe there are numerous sub-groups operating ..
In February 2022, the United Nations launched the negotiation of a “Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes”, a process that had been initiated by the Russian Federation. The treaty is scheduled to be finalized by January 2024. In May 2022, the Council of Europe opened for ..
Russian war in Ukraine is the first example of a full-scale cyber war. A dramatic increase in the number of cyberattacks and critical cyber incidents was observed in Ukraine in 2022 compared to previous years. Most of the attacks were targeted at state entities and critical infrastructure and were conducted by the special services of ..
Denis Mihaqlovic Dubnikov, the Russian national who recently pleaded guilty to charges related to laundering money for the Ryuk ransomware group, has been sentenced to time served. Authorities said Dubnikov laundered money for the cybercrime gang between 2018 and August 2021. He was arrested in the Netherlands in November 2021 and extradited to the United ..
Le prese pubbliche per la ricarica via USB possono essere usate per iniettare virus, malware e software spia nei telefoni. L’allarme è stato lanciato dall’FBI la settimana scorsa per avvisare gli utenti di evitare le porte USB pubbliche attraverso l’account Twitter dell’FBI di Denver. L’Agenzia federale statunitense ha spiegato che le stazioni di ricarica pubbliche ..
Partirà da Milano, e, più precisamente, dalla scuola secondaria I Grado Cassinis, il tour in Lombardia di “Giovani Ambasciatori per la cittadinanza digitale contro cyberbullismo e cyber risk”. Alle 8:00 di mercoledì 12 aprile arriverà presso l’istituto il centro mobile del MOIGE. Saranno 12 le tappe in Lombardia della campagna che promuove un uso sicuro della rete e mira a contrastare il bullismo, aumentato ..
