The owner of China-based cryptocurrency exchange Bitzlato was arrested in Miami on Wednesday, along with five associates in Europe, during an international operation against “darknet” markets. Anatoly Legkodymov, 40, a Russian living in Shenzhen, China, appeared in handcuffs and leg shackles in a Miami courtroom on money laundering charges, and was denied bail by a ..
Tag : Cybercrime
Per il secondo anno consecutivo, i Rischi informatici derivanti da attacchi informatici e l’Interruzione di attività rappresentano i principali timori delle aziende (entrambi con il 34% delle risposte). Lo rivela la nuova indagine di Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS), il sondaggio annuale sui principali rischi percepiti dalle aziende a livello globale secondo gli oltre 2.700 intervistati, provenienti da 94 paesi, ..
Avast and Bitdefender have released decryptors to help victims of BianLian and MegaCortex ransomware recover their data for free. Written in Golang, BianLian emerged in August 2022 and has been used in targeted attacks against entertainment, healthcare, media, and manufacturing organizations. Once it has been executed on a victim’s machine, the malware identifies all available ..
Al via da oggi due direttive fondamentali per innalzare le difese informatiche a livello europeo. Stiamo parlando della direttiva sulle misure per un elevato livello comune di cybersicurezza in tutta l’Unione (la cosiddetta Nis 2) e la direttiva sulla resilienza delle entità critiche (direttiva Cer), due direttive pubblicate in Gazzetta Ufficiale lo scorso 27 dicembre ..
Canadian liquor distributor Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) has announced that a web skimmer injected into its online store was used to steal users’ personal data. One of the largest liquor sellers in Canada, LCBO retails and distributes alcoholic beverages throughout the Ontario province, operating over 670 stores and employing more than 8,000 people. ..
Software development service CircleCI has revealed that a recently disclosed data breach was the result of information stealer malware being deployed on an engineer’s laptop. The incident was initially disclosed on January 4, when CircleCI urged customers to rotate their secret keys. In an updated incident report on Friday, the company said that it was ..
Most internet-exposed Cacti installations have not been patched against a critical-severity command injection vulnerability that is being exploited in attacks. An open-source web-based network monitoring and graphing tool that offers an operational monitoring and fault management framework, Cacti is a front-end application for the data logging utility RRDtool. In early December 2022, the tool’s maintainers ..
A Pro-Russian cybercrime group named NoName057(16) is actively launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against organizations in Ukraine and NATO countries. Also known as NoName05716, 05716nnm or Nnm05716, the threat actor has been supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine since March 2022, launching disruptive attacks against government and critical infrastructure organizations. To date, the group has launched ..
British news organization The Guardian has confirmed that personal information was compromised in a ransomware attack in December 2022. The company fell victim to the attack just days before Christmas, when it instructed staff to work from home, announcing network disruptions that mostly impacted the print newspaper. Right from the start, the Guardian said it ..
La Camera dei Deputati e l’Agenzia per la Cybersicurezza Nazionale (ACN) hanno sottoscritto oggi un protocollo d’intesa in materia di sicurezza informatica. L’accordo, spiega l’Agenzia in una nota nota, permetterà di avviare un qualificato confronto a tutela dell’Istituzione e nell’interesse generale del Paese. “Siamo molto orgogliosi della collaborazione avviata con la Camera dei deputati e ..
