Hacker Killnet, here are the sites of Italian companies and institutions under attack
One week later, the sites of the Italian institutions again hit by cyber attacks. Once again, hackers from the pro-Russian collective Killnet claimed responsibility for the attack
The pro-Russian hackers of the Killnet group return to the attack on the websites of various Italian institutions and ministries.
The websites of various ministries, that of the CSM, and of large Italian companies, several dozen in all, last night suffered a hacker attack that took place starting at 10 pm last night. To claim the deed was the Russian collective group Killnet. At the moment many of the sites are not yet accessible.
The pro-Russian collective had already claimed responsibility for the May 11 attacks on the websites of the Ministry of Defense and the Senate. Police said last weekend that they had foiled a cyber attack in the final stages of the Eurovision Song Contest in Turin. Police attributed both attacks to the Killnet group and its extremist affiliate Legion, Reuters reports.
Today's claim is currently being examined by investigators from the Postal and Communications Police.
ITALIAN INSTITUTIONAL SITES UNDER ATTACK AGAIN
A hacker attack against various Italian institutional websites has been underway since 10 pm last night. The news was confirmed by the Postal Police itself, which is working to protect the portals.
Under attack is the portal of the ministries of the Environment, Foreign Affairs, Interior, Education, Defense and Culture. The site of the CSM, that of the Senate, the Customs Agency, the State Police and the Court of Auditors as well as that of Federtrasporto are also blocked.
BUT ALSO COMPANIES
The sites of Wind tre, Tim, Eni and the National Academy of Sciences were also targeted.
WORK OF THE KILLNET HACKERS
The Russian collective Killnet claimed responsibility for the cyber attack, according to what was written on its Telegram channel.
"Fire at all" wrote the hackers who in a previous message had given instructions "to liquidate the Italian information structure", asking for an attack for 48 hours and not to hit the health system.
Killnet is known to specialize in so-called Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, where hackers try to paralyze servers.
CLOSE TO MOSCOW
It is a militant pro-Russian collective that according to various experts is linked to the armed forces of the Federation. "Killnet is a collective of cyber criminals believed to be close to the Kremlin and is very active in targeting anyone who supports Ukraine," Repubblica wrote a week ago.
“The proximity of the Killnet collective to Vladimir Putin's government is undoubted. The same Cisa (Cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency), the information intelligence agency of the US government, confirms this. The same press releases from Killnet find this out ”, Il Sole 24 Ore points out.
THE NATIONAL CYBER SECURITY AGENCY UNDER PRESSURE
Despite the fact that Italian computer networks have been the target of cyber pirates for weeks, "Italy's tools and antibodies to hacker attacks are high". Defense Minister Lorenzo Guerini said this during a press point in Florence, reports AgenziaNova . "Hacker attacks are a constant in all countries and there is however attention on our part to cyber security and to all the structures that are responsible for network security," said Guerini.
Yet the raids are putting a strain on the National Cybersecurity Agency, Open points out. As confirmed by the director Roberto Baldoni during the hearing at the Constitutional Affairs Commission who stated that at the moment it is "difficult to react".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/hacker-killnet-ecco-i-siti-di-aziende-e-istituzioni-italiane-sotto-attacco/ on Fri, 20 May 2022 14:13:52 +0000.