Here’s how hackers make SIAE artists dance
Hacker attack by the Everest group on Siae. 60 gigabytes of sensitive data relating to the artists registered with the company were stolen and ended up on the dark web and a ransom in bitcoin (3 million) was also requested that Siae did not pay. All the details
Scoop of the Agi news agency this morning: the agency directed by Mario Sechi has revealed that in recent weeks there has been a hacker attack against Siae (Society of Authors and Publishers).
Here are all the details.
THE NUMBERS ON THE HACKER ATTACK AGAINST SIAE
A 'data breach' attack was carried out by hackers at Siae: about 70 gigabytes of data were exfiltrated and a ransom was demanded to prevent its publication. The postal police investigate the case through the Rome compartment of the Cnaipic (National Cybercrime Center for the protection of critical infrastructures).
HOW THE AGGRESSION WAS BORN
The Society of Authors and Publishers, according to what emerged , had already been the victim of small attacks a few weeks ago, what in jargon are called pishing , and the security systems alert had been triggered .
EVEREST GROUP, HERE ARE THE AUTHORS OF THE ATTACK AGAINST SIAE
The hacker attack was claimed by the Everest group. 60GB of data was stolen, including sensitive data such as ID cards, driving licenses, health cards and addresses, which has already been offered for sale on the dark web.
REDEMPTION ASKED BUT DENIED
Siae will not give in to the ransom demand after the hacker attack that led to the theft of 28 thousand documents. The ransom request, equal to 3 million euros in bitcoin, arrived on October 18, with a company, but the authors and publishers company does not have authors and publishers do not have to sell.
WHAT THE GENERAL MANAGER OF SIAE SAID
"The SIAE will not follow up on the ransom request, we cannot give in to the blackmail of criminals", said general manager Gaetano Blandini. The Siae, after the theft suffered, reported the incident to its IT technicians who raised the defense barriers. Inoltra reported the theft of documents, including driving licenses and health cards, to the Postal Police and the Privacy Guarantor.
THE DISRUPTIVE NEWS OF THE ATTACK AGAINST SIAE
SIAE subscribers who have suffered the data breach from the hacker attack with their publication on the dark web "cannot do anything: let them make a local mind of what data they have provided because, if they are on the dark web, they will publish. It's just a question of cost. For them it is a disaster that they start changing at least the phone number ”. Thus to LaPresse Riccardo Meggiato, one of the leading Italian cybersecurity experts, regarding the hacker attack suffered by Siae: “The fact that the data is already on the dark web amazed me: usually the new trend is to do a double trick: the data is stolen and, if the ransom is not paid, it is made public. Here it seems that there has been one less step: cybercriminals have probably already played the first card ", explains Meggiato, according to which the data on the dark web" could be a payment: the hackers perhaps knew that they would not have collected the ransom and have decided to publish the data ".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/ecco-come-gli-hacker-fanno-ballare-gli-artisti-della-siae/ on Wed, 20 Oct 2021 14:17:16 +0000.