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

Calvados. L’UNA victime d’une cyberattaque et d’une demande de rançon L’Union nationale d’aide du Calvados, entreprise sociale de services à la personne et à domicile, a subi une importante cyberattaque dont elle s’est rendu compte le 15 août 2022. Les logiciels de l’association se sont avérés inexploitables. Un retour à la normale est attendu pour la semaine prochaine. Mais les salariés ont pu suivre leur planning de visites à domicile. Read more about it : here

Hanover The automotive supplier and tyre manufacturer Continental says it has been the victim of a cyber attack - but the company does not report any impairment of business. The IT department discovered at the beginning of August that cyber criminals had partially infiltrated Conti's systems, a company spokesman said in Hanover on Wednesday. However, Continental had continued to maintain control over the systems, and there had been no encryption of data or ransom demand by the attackers. Business activities were not affected at any time. According to current knowledge, third-party IT systems were also not affected, the Hanover-based company said. Read more about it : here

A German auto parts store, Autodoc, located in Finland, has suffered a data breach, according to a statement sent to its customers.  Attackers managed to break into the company's internal "communication tool" and use it to steal customers' personal data. The attack was quickly stopped, but the company says the data was still stolen. Customers' names, home addresses, phone numbers and email addresses were affected.   Read more about it : here