Cybersecurity incident — 2017-01-11 00:00:00
Affected organization: Matteo Renzi
Affected country: Italy
Industry: Other Services (except Public Administration)
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Giulio Occhionero; Francesca Maria Occhionero
Actor type: Undetermined
Actor country: Undetermined

Italian siblings Giulio and Francesca Maria Occhionero are arrested in Rome, charged with conducting a long-running cyber espionage campaign against leading Italian politicians, businessmen and Masons using a variant of the malware family EyePyramid. Among the victims are the grand master of Italy's biggest lodge, the president of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, and former Italian prime ministers, Matteo Renzi and Mario Monti.