- Italian police received multiple complaints about ransomware attacks
- Most victims were active internationally in the field of civil rights.
- The attackers pointed to their Nes of Sinmanic Disco
A 44 -year -old Romanian citizen has been arrested during an operation of application of the law to dismantle a ransomware campaign called “Disco”.
The album is generally aimed at the storage devices of the synchronization network (NAS), often used in a business environment for storage and exchange of centralized files, backup and data recovery, and general content accommodation. The group was first seen in 2021, and since then it has used different names, such as diskstation security, rapid security, legendary security, 7 security and umbrella security.
Police received “a series of complaints filed by numerous companies operating in Lombardy”, which suffered data encryption and, therefore, could not operate unless they paid a rescue in exchange for the deciphered key.
Direct Sinology devices
Among the objectives were cinematographic production organizations, event organizations and non -profit organizations, all active at the international level in the field of civil rights protection and charity events.
Police investigation, which included analyzing both encrypted devices and the block chain (since the rescue demands were paid in cryptocurrencies), led detectives to France and Romania, and resulted in operation Elicius, coordinated by Europol.
“Several” subjects were identified as part of the Diskstation group, all of Romanian nationality. In June 2024, the police raided multiple suspects in Bucharest and, according to the announcement, even caught a person “in the act of committing a crime.”
The 44 -year -old man who was arrested now is arrested, under the suspicion of “abusive access to a computer or telematic system,” and “extortion.”
Diskstation mischief were not widely informed in technological media. The name is most commonly associated with the NAS product line of Synology, which has been directed by ransomware cybercriminals in the past.
According to reports, this particular group demanded rescue payments between $ 10,000 and “hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
Through Bleepingcomputer
