Cyber ​​attack on Leonardo, I took manager and former employee. Hacker had already hacked NATO base

Through a newly engineered Trojan, inoculated into computers through USB pendrives, for almost two years, between May 2015 and January 2017, they stole 10 gigabytes of classified data and information of significant business value: two precautionary measures were notified to a former employee and a 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 began in 2015.

The recipients of the precautionary measures are the former IT security

manager

of Leonardo SpA,

, for whom the investigating judge ordered the prison and

, head of the CERT (Cyber ​​Emergency Readiness Team) of Leonardo spa, body in charge of managing the cyber attacks suffered by the company to which the precautionary measure of home custody was notified.

The former employee is challenged with abusive access to the computer system, unlawful interception of electronic communications and unlawful processing of personal data, according to the crime of misdirection.

The user profiles of many employees were configured on the workstations targeted by the hackers, some with managerial duties, engaged in business activities aimed at the production of goods and services of a strategic nature for the security and defense of the country such as projects for electronic systems of military aircraft.

The hackers had managed to inoculate the Trojan on 94 workstations, of which 33 in the company plant in Pomigliano D'Arco.

After downloading 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 pool of the Naples Public Prosecutor's Office, had even managed to successfully carry out a cyber attack on a NATO American 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 note it on his resume, without specifying that it was precisely for that cyber crime that he had been convicted.

Nonetheless, he worked for Leonardo Spa's IT security.