For the sixth consecutive morning on
Saturday a pro-Russian hacker group, Noname057(16), staged a new
wave of cyberattacks against a reported 20 Italian sites.
The targets included ministries, police forces such as the tax
police, banks (Banca Intesa), and transport companies (Milan's
Linate and Malpensa airport, the port of Taranto and Trieste),
among others.
The group has consistently targeted Italian institutions, banks
and arms industries, as well as public transport companies.
As with the other attacks, which also affected the websites of
several ministries, the Carabinieri and Finance police forces,
some transport companies, financial institutions, airports and
port authorities, the group staged DDOS (distributed denial of
service) attacks aiming to make the sites unreachable by
flooding them with access requests.
The National cybersecurity agency on Saturday intervened to
alert the targets and mitigate the attacks.
The agency on Friday published on its website guidelines to
prevent this type of attack.
Last Monday, the hacker group linked its attack to President
Sergio Mattarella recently comparing Russia to the Third Reich
in relation to its invasion of Ukraine.
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said
Mattarella's comments will not go "without consequences".
The Italian president did not respond directly to the threat
levelled by Zakharova, who also called Mattarella's comparison
"blasphemous".
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