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2023_092

A company specializing in multimodal transport is threatened of data leak following a ransomware [...]

Day	Month	Year	Country	Activity	Incident Type
2	June	2023	Italy	Port	Virus/Ransomware

Summary

The victim, managing a container terminal in Italy, was targeted by a cyber attack on June 2, 2023. The gang stated that they had exfiltrated a significant amount of data from the affected organization's IT infrastructure.

The website of the affected organization went down, displaying a "Site under maintenance" message on the homepage and returning errors on subpages, altough it cannot be said if it was due to the attack itself or to the remediation process.

Victim

CONATECO

Claimed/Reported Threat Actor

Darkrace

Origin

Cybercrime

Main impact

Confidentiality

References

https://www.redhotcyber.com/post/la-cyber-gang-darktrace-rivendica-un-attacco-allitaliana-conateco-il-sito-web-e-offline/

Recommendations to Port to reduce Virus/Ransomware risks:

Map, understand, patch and secure your exposed assets on the Internet.
Implement email filtering systems to detect and block phishing emails.
Train your organisation, personnel regularly against these threats.
Install efficient Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) tools.
Work with your CSIRT organization to better understand the Tactics, Techniques and Procedures used by threat actors.
Monitor your IT and OT systems to quickly detect potential pre-ransomware activity.
Implement an efficient offline backup policy.
Encrypt all sensitive data to avoid further data leaks.

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