Aggression against Leonardo, what is new about Neuron
Neuron and beyond, here are the programs that were at the center of the hacker attack against Leonardo, according to what he has discovered so far from the judiciary
LEONARDO, NEURON AND NOT ONLY
It just turned out that the criminal operation against the former Finmeccanica targeted – among others – the computer of a designer who had responsibility for the architecture and definition of the electrical system of a remotely piloted fighter plane. . We are not talking about a toy drone but an experimental military aircraft called “ nEUROn ”.
The news – now in the public domain – emerged following an elementary as well as illuminating comparison activity between the profiles of the users present on the computers “infected” by the Trojan and the employment roles of the employees who used those IT tools. The finding that the workstations manipulated with malicious instructions and plundered of their very delicate content corresponded to specialists who held extremely critical tasks does not seem to coincide with the substantial "nun ce pensà" of the company declarations.
Even the most distracted (spontaneously or catechized) thus regain awareness of this bad story and start again to deal with the hi-tech giant which – according to the manager of the Cyber & Security sector – “is an unparalleled excellence and guarantee”.
The feedback announced in these hours has also brought to light another not very comforting circumstance. The famous “trojan” developed by Leonardo's technician – today “ex” but at the time of the facts “actual” – would also have acted on the PCs used by a person in charge of testing ATR aircraft.
Even the ATR – like the nEUROn – does not appear to be a radio-controlled model aircraft for recreational use. It is in fact the aircraft used for maritime patrolling by the Air Services of the Guardia di Finanza and the Coast Guard.
It's not over.
Another position bitten by the malignant instructions and consequently bled to death of the relative content was that of an employee of the “Suppliers” organizational unit who, in addition to the ATR project, followed that of the C-27J. That abbreviation, which could suggest a "shot" of a naval battle challenge during the Christmas lockdown period, corresponds to a medium-class tactical transport aircraft which constitutes the advanced and updated version of the historic G.222.
The list is likely to grow. Let's be content with feeling bad with these little crumbs.
(extract from an article published on Infosec; here the full version )
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/aggressione-neuron-leonardo/ on Sun, 03 Jan 2021 07:03:22 +0000.