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Key Findings Threat actors claiming to be "Infrastructure Destruction Squad" or "Dark Engine" breached Venice's San Marco flood defense system in late March 2026 Attackers claim to have maintained administrative access and stated they could disable flood defenses and inundate coastal areas Group offered full root access to the system for $600 USD, demonstrating both severity of breach and low barrier to further exploitation Italian authorities confirmed critical systems prote

Key Findings Mandiant has identified an "expansion in threat activity" using tactics consistent with extortion-themed attacks orchestrated by the ShinyHunters hacking group The attacks leverage advanced voice phishing (vishing) and fake credential harvesting sites to gain unauthorized access to victim environments by collecting sign-on (SSO) credentials and multi-factor authentication (MFA) codes The end goal is to target cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications