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COVID-19 vaccine: beware of phishing

COVID-19 vaccine: beware of phishing

Have you received a strange e-mail about COVID-19, offering you various solutions to buy an under-the-counter vaccine currently in distribution? Think twice before clicking on any link. In addition to trying to sell fake Covid-19 drugs and vaccines, hackers are using the latest news as bait for their phishing campaigns. Threat intelligence analysts have warned that cybercriminals are taking advantage of developments on the COVID vaccine distribution campaign to give rise to insidious malspam campaigns. The threats What threats are we talking about? These phishing campaigns contain a myriad of malicious files. We have singled out: .EXE with the name “Download_Covid 19 New approved vaccines.23.07.2020.exe” which, once clicked, will install […]

Spyware – an almost invisible threat

Spyware – an almost invisible threat

Is your PC or mobile phone not as fast as it used to be? Has your battery started lasting less and less, despite its limited state of deterioration? Have you found that you use more data when surfing the net? If so, you may have been infected with spyware, a rather sneaky malware that lurks in about 90% of PCs without the legitimate users knowing. Spyware: what is it? Spyware is malicious software that infects your computer and spies on you for your personal data. This program can record various personal information, from search and browsing histories to login credentials to credit card information. There are different types of spyware, […]

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

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

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 in this day and age to have a unit completely dedicated to the control and protection of all military networks and assistance in the various operational theaters at home and abroad. The Department will have mainly defensive tasks, aimed at intercepting cyber-attack attempts and securing all military devices and equipment connected to the network. Cyberwarfare is a pervasive reality within the international playing field and can have serious operational repercussions. A cyberattack directed at army communications systems can have dire […]

Telsy’s report on UniCredit’s data breach went viral worldwide

Telsy’s report on UniCredit’s data breach went viral worldwide

On the evening of April 19, Telsy denounced that the personal data of about 3000 employees of the UniCredit S.p.A. bank, one of the largest banks in Italy, had been put on sale on cybercrime forums. According to the seller, in the leak there are information about thousands of employees, including emails, phone numbers, encrypted password, last name and first name. The database was found available on at least two cyber-crime and hacking related forums. In the following hours the article published by Telsy on its blog (which can be found at the following link )has been reported by several major news agency worldwide. Telsy’s CEO, Emanuele Spoto, commented: “Yesterday […]

A new campaign of phishing attacks to steal personal data reported

A new campaign of phishing attacks to steal personal data reported

A few days ago, on the 27th of March, industry reporting signalled a new campaign of Covid-19/ coronavirus-themed spear phishing attacks that illegitimately uses the WHO (World Health Organization) mark, to spread another variant of the info-stealer Lokibot, in order to steal personal data and confidential information from the victims of the attack. This is not the first time that this particular malware has appeared, in fact numerous versions, all derived from the original source code, have already been identified. The most disparate methods were also used for what concerns the means of distribution. This spear phishing campaign has already spread rapidly in different parts of the world, especially in […]

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