{"id":1631354,"date":"2022-09-02T17:36:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T21:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1631354"},"modified":"2022-09-02T17:36:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T21:36:49","slug":"ransomware-group-blackcat-behind-italys-gse-hacking-researchers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ransomware-group-blackcat-behind-italys-gse-hacking-researchers-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware group BlackCat behind Italy\u2019s GSE hacking, researchers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fransomware-group-blackcat-behind-italys-gse-hacking-researchers-say%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1631354&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Supantha Mukherjee and Elvira Pollina<\/p>\n<p>STOCKHOLM\/MILAN (Reuters) \u2013     Hacking group BlackCat was behind a recent attack on Italy\u2019s state-owned energy services firm GSE, stole a massive amount of data and threatened to publish if their demands were not met, according to security researchers and documents seen by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>In a ransomware attack, hackers steal data and threaten their victims with data leaks, often extorting them for a crypto currency payment. <\/p>\n<p>BlackCat, also known as ALPHV, emerged in mid-November last year and is known for launching sophisticated attacks on scores of companies across the U.S. and Europe.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday it claimed to have downloaded 700 gigabytes of data from GSE, including information on projects, contracts and accounting, and uploaded images of documents from the hack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlackCat has a history of targeting organizations in the energy industry and is very active,\u201d said Ryan Olson, vice president of threat intelligence at Unit 42, a division of cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are tracking 136 worldwide victims posted to their leak site so far in 2022,\u201d he told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>GSE declined to comment. It had said earlier that the hacking attack took place between Sunday and Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The average recovery cost from a ransomware attack is estimated at $1.85 million, said Walter Ruffinoni, CEO of NTT Data Italia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Italy, the phenomenon have risen 350% in the last year, where 1.9% of Italian companies each week suffered an attack of this type,\u201d Ruffinoni said.<\/p>\n<p>Last month Italian oil company Eni\u2019s computer networks were also hacked, though the company said the consequences appear to be minor so far.<\/p>\n<p>On a dark web site, BlackCat posted 12 victims in June, 26 victims in July and so far two victims in August, Olson said.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Supantha Mukherjee in Stockholm and Elvira Pollina in Milan; Additional reporting by Francesco Zecchini; Editing by Peter Graff)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/?attachment_id=2744700\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI810XG-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI810XG-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Supantha Mukherjee and Elvira Pollina STOCKHOLM\/MILAN (Reuters) \u2013 Hacking group BlackCat was behind a recent attack on Italy\u2019s state-owned energy services firm GSE, stole a massive amount of data<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1631354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1631354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1631354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1631354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1631354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}