Symantec has published two blog posts to warn organizations about advanced persistent threat (APT) actors targeting the materials sector in Asia. The most prominent of the hacking groups is Winnti, also known as APT41, Barium, Blackfly, Bronze Atlas, Double Dragon, Wicked Panda, and Wicked Spider, a Chinese state-sponsored threat group active since at least 2007, ..
Tag : Cybercrime
L’intelligence italiana ha pubblicato oggi una sintetica panoramica degli esiti dell’attività di analisi delle informazioni, raccolte con strumenti convenzionali e in ambiente classificato, finalizzate a tutelare la sicurezza della Repubblica e a proteggerne gli interessi politici, militari, economici, scientifici e industriali a fronte di uno scenario della minaccia assai fluido e contraddistinto da continue evoluzioni. ..
CrowdStrike on Tuesday published its 2023 Global Threat Report, which reveals that the company is now tracking more than 200 adversaries, after identifying 33 new threat actors and campaigns in 2022. CrowdStrike told SecurityWeek that 14 of the 33 were actually brand new adversaries or activity, while the rest were linked to previous activity observed ..
A Russian national accused of developing a piece of malware named NLBrute has been extradited to the United States from the Eastern European country of Georgia. The suspect, Dariy Pankov, aka dpxaker, was extradited from Georgia in October 2022 and he appeared before a US judge this week. It’s unclear for how long he had ..
Cybercrime: una delle minacce più inquietanti dei nostri tempi. Quante volte abbiamo sentito parlare di crimini informatici, hacker, furto di dati e conseguenti violazioni della privacy? I criminali informatici sono riusciti spesso a invadere spazi protetti della pubblica amministrazione, delle grandi aziende, con il rischio di sottrarre dati importanti, e utilizzarli per scopi illeciti. Il ..
Fortune Business Insights ha valutato il mercato delle assicurazioni informatiche in oltre 10 miliardi di dollari nel 2021 e prevede una crescita di oltre 63 miliardi di dollari entro il 2029. Con la crescente diffusione delle minacce informatiche e gli elevati costi associati alla risposta e al recovery dopo un incidente informatico, molte aziende e ..
Nel 2022 in Italia sono stati registrati 2.600 fenomeni legati al cybercrime, di cui 1.236 attacchi, 1.261 incidenti e 103 violazioni della privacy; un numero quasi doppio rispetto ai 1.356 del 2021 e più che quadruplicato rispetto ai 605 del 2020. Il dato emerge dall’ultimo ‘Threat Intelligence Report’ di Exprivia che prende in considerazione 118 ..
Law enforcement in Spain and the US this week announced dismantling a cybercrime gang that defrauded victims of more than $5.3 million. Based in Madrid, the international criminal organization employed a sophisticated scam that involved phishing, social engineering, smishing, and vishing to trick victims into sharing details about their bank accounts to steal money from ..
Web protection company Cloudflare over the weekend mitigated a record-setting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 71 million requests per second (RPS). The assault, the company says, was the largest HTTP DDoS attack on record, but was not the only one observed this past weekend. In fact, Cloudflare identified and mitigated dozens of DDoS ..
Organizations hit by attacks exploiting a recently disclosed zero-day vulnerability affecting the GoAnywhere managed file transfer (MFT) software have started coming forward and disclosing impact. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-0669, was disclosed by GoAnywhere developer Fortra on February 1, after the company became aware of in-the-wild exploitation. Mitigations and indicators of compromise (IoCs) were released ..
