The pro-Russian hacktivist group Phoenix said on its Telegram channel that after seeing an increase in attacks by pro-Ukrainian cyber groups against the daily lives of Russian citizens, they will now target hospitals and social organisations.  Read more about it : here

Italy's state-owned energy services firm GSE said on Monday its gas purchases were guaranteed despite a hacking attack on its IT systems that happened overnight. The company added its website and portals were temporarily suspended to secure data. GSE has been buying gas to boost Italy's stockpiles and help fill the country's gas storage system to at least 90% of capacity by year-end. Read more about it : here

Both Atos and Eloas suffered cyber attacks over the weekend of 9-11 September.   Eloas reportedly announced that it had suffered an "intrusion". On Sunday 11 September, the company said that the incident had been resolved and that all its services were operational again. However, according to MagIT, some of its sources, users of a virtual private server, said they had problems with the computer systems and had not heard from the Eolas teams since Saturday morning at 11am. Orange services have not made any further announcements on this subject.  The company Atos has had part of its outsourcing platform affected by a cyber attack. According to MagIT, this is what the Agence du Numérique en Santé (Digital Health Agency) indicated on its website on the morning of Friday 9 September before the announcement was deleted after a few hours. The publication stated that "victim of a cyber attack on its systems, the publisher Atos has taken security measures by temporarily interrupting certain web services".  Read more about it : here

Hacktivists or the Ukrainian state, with possible support from "Langley" (CIA), cyber-attacked Moscow University during a master's degree in hybrid warfare.  The university's security teams claimed that it was apparent that part of the attack originated in Washington and part in Kiev. According to these claims, some US authorities wanted to disrupt the university's hybrid warfare programme.  Read more about it : here

According to Valery Marchive, managing editor of "MAG-IT", an attack on the Belgian-based Casa Shop on August 8 was claimed by the cybercriminal group AvosLocker. The amount of the ransom or the nature of the data has not been communicated, however it seems that no customer data has been stolen.  Read more about it : here

A phishing campaign is currently targeting Poland, with attackers posing as "binzes.gov.pl.", a public service for entrepreneurs.  The email typically contains:  "The notification will be available on your authorised account until 09-17-2022 and if you do not read it within the specified period, appropriate consequences will be triggered (...)".  A copy of the notification mentioned in the fake email is included in the email attachment but it is a fake document which is actually a malicious web script. When it is opened, the computer is infected.  Read more about it : here

On the morning of 6 September, the pro-Ukraine hacktivist group "IT Army of Ukraine" claimed to have attacked the website of the bank "Gazprombank". The bank, wholly owned by Gazprom, is the third largest bank in Russia in terms of assets and investments. The website was still inaccessible on 6 September at 4pm.  Read more about it : here

Eni, too, after Gse, reports that it was attacked on the IT level. But with minor damage, unlike Gse, which is still down. Various experts suspect an attack from Russia, at a time when energy plays a critical geopolitical role Read more about it : here

According to officials at the Swedish website val.se, the site faced serious technical problems as a result of DDoS cyber attacks from 10 to 11 September.   The head of the authority's secretariat said on 11 September: "There have been three DDoS attacks against val.se, one yesterday and two today. The most recent one is still ongoing.  During the elections, the Swedish regional governments also reportedly experienced problems with their telecommunication facilities, but this did not disrupt the elections or their outcome.  Read more about it : here

According to the cyber media, the cyber actor PoCExploiter has announced that the telecommunications operator Vodafone Italy has had approximately 309 gigabytes of data stolen. This data may already be exposed on the net, although no information is available at the moment to confirm this. Read more about it : here