Meridian Group’s Cyber Intelligence Weekly Update
Our new Cyber Intelligence Weekly Report covers various highlights of the past week. The principal events:
- Italy under attack: NoName057(16)’s cyber strategy: The pro-Russian collective NoName057(16) has intensified DDoS attacks against Italian institutions to destabilise the national digital network. The attacks are linked to Italian support for Ukraine and celebrate Giorgia Meloni as a European leader. The group uses Telegram to coordinate and advanced tools to overcome defences.
- Electoral crisis in Romania: Constitutional Court cancels first round of presidential elections: Cyber attacks and disinformation campaigns led to the cancellation of the first round of elections in Romania. Electoral systems were infiltrated with advanced techniques, compromising sensitive data. Russian involvement is suspected, aimed at destabilising a NATO member country.
- New phishing campaign simulates a Generali survey to steal personal and credit card data: A fake email promises prizes for participating in a survey supposedly from Generali, with the aim of stealing personal and bank data. Victims are tricked with requests for small payments that fail in order to extort further information. The fraud exploits urgency and fake feedback.
- Bank phishing: criminal network between Belgium and the Netherlands foiled: A criminal group used call centres in luxury flats to empty bank accounts and finance an opulent lifestyle. Authorities arrested five suspects involved in Europe-wide phishing. The victims were contacted as part of a ‘fraud team’ to collect sensitive data.
- Secret Blizzard uses malware associated with other malicious actors to distribute backdoor Kazuar: The Russian group Secret Blizzard exploited malware from other hackers to infiltrate Ukrainian systems with an advanced backdoor. Techniques such as malware-as-a-service allowed sophisticated espionage operations on government and industrial targets. Attribution is made difficult by shared tools.
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(Report also available in ENGLISH)
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