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Trojan to steal 10 Gb of “top-secret” information: prison and house arrest
Through a newly engineered Trojan, inoculated into computers via USB sticks, for almost two years, between May 2015 and January 2017, 10 gigabytes of classified data and information of significant commercial value were stolen: two measures of caution to a former employee and manager of Leonardo spa (an Italian company active in the defense, aerospace and security sectors) believed to be involved in a serious attack on IT structures against the Aerostructures Division and the Aircraft Division which started in 2015.
The recipients of the precautionary measures are the former IT security manager of Leonardo SpA, Arturo D’Elia, for which the investigating judge ordered the prison and Antonio Rossi, head of the CERT (Cyber Emergency Readiness Team) of Leonardo spa, the body in charge of managing the computer attacks suffered by the company to which the precautionary measure of home custody was notified. The former employee is charged with abusive access to the computer system, illegal interception of electronic communications and illegal processing of personal data, according to the crime of diversion.
The user profiles of many employees were configured in the jobs targeted by hackers, some with managerial functions, dedicated to business activities aimed at the production of goods and services of a strategic nature for the country’s security and defense as projects. of electronic systems. of military aircraft. The hackers had managed to inoculate the Trojan on 94 workstations, of which 33 at the company’s plant in Pomigliano D’Arco. After unloading, any trace of the raid was erased. Hackers intercepted what was typed on keyboards and screens.
Arturo D’Elia, the former Leonardo spa employee arrested as part of the investigation by the cybercrime group of the Naples Prosecutor’s Office, had even managed to successfully carry out a cyber attack against a NATO base located on Italian territory. (pm Onorati, Cozza, deputy prosecutor Piscitelli) for whom today the investigating judge ordered the prison. An action for which he was so proud to write it down on his resume, without specifying that it was precisely for this cybercrime that he had been convicted. However, he worked for computer security at Leonardo Spa.
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