Cybersecurity incident — 2017-09-30 00:00:00
Affected organization: General Confederation of Italian Industry
Affected country: Italy
Industry: Other Services (except Public Administration)
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined

The director of the General Confederation of Italian Industry group in Brussels falls victim of an email scam and transfers 500,000 EUR (590,000 USD) to an unknown bank account.