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Turin Polytechnic under attack: what you should know

A hacker attack has temporarily disabled Turin Polytechnic’s online services servers for a few hours. What did happen? Was it a severe violation? Let’s find it out together! What did...

The Emotet threat

01 Feb

Law enforcement agencies from the several EU countries and the UK have dismantled the notorious malware Emotet. The takedown of this malicious botnet happened on Tuesday, 26th January. Emotet is...

Sunburst: the attack that shook the world

27 Jan

Cyber analysts recently discovered the “Sunburst” attack malware, which triggered a series of cyber-espionage attacks that began in the spring of 2020. The attack involved thousands of public administrations, private...

Take a hacker seriously: the story of Raphael Grey

25 Jan

You will take a hacker seriously after reading the story of Raphael Grey. Raphael Grey managed to hack several e-commerce sites, accessing the customers’ credit card data for a month...

AiR-ViBeR: the hack that exploits PC fans

18 Jan

Cyber risks, as we know, have always been around the corner. They are insidious and can even silently affect the data of companies and individuals quite easily, if not adequately...

Cyber threats linked to COVID

10 Dec

Has the Coronavirus had negative effects on the state of global cybersecurity? Unfortunately, yes. In the past few hours, there has been a series of cyber-attacks against the Italian pharmaceutical...

How the Italian Army defends itself from cyber threats: the RSC

04 Dec

The Italian Army has recently made the Cyber Security Department (RSC) operational, after establishing it around two years ago. As threats to cyber space increase exponentially, it is absolutely vital...

The double extortion technique: the Campari case

26 Nov

In recent weeks the Campari group has suffered a serious ransomware attack of the so-called “double extortion” technique. The damage would amount to two terabytes of stolen data, with attached...

Unknown threat actor is using a compromised website belonging to a government institution of Middle-East in a campaign referring commercial and financial themes.

09 May

Recently, Telsy TRT detected a wave of malicious documents trying to impersonate an official institution of a government of Middle-East. Moreover, the website of another government institution of the same...