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Padua, hacker attack from China: “Half a million and you will get the data back”. Galileo saves the blow and doesn’t pay

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One Chinese hacker attack blocked the entire Galileo Network database for a few days, an IT company that manages data for credit consortia and bank guarantees for SMEs. The group, which is called Apt41 (Apt stands for attack persistent threat), uses very sophisticated spying tools and appear to be an offshoot of the Chinese government, which attacks European companies that hold trade secrets or financial data. The Paduan company found itself in the midst of this scenario (80 employees and 8 million in turnover) that in the past few days he could no longer access the customer database and related…

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