Russian cyberattacks on Italian institutions up - agency

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 5 - The CSIRT incident-response team of the National Cybersecurity Agency has reported an increase in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on Italian institutions by Russian hacker groups, sources said Monday.
    The agency said that these attacks have been of a "demonstrative" nature and have not led to breaches of the integrity and confidentiality of the systems.
    But it also said the attacks are likely to intensify in the coming months and recommended that public institutions devote great attention to the security of their IT systems and assess whether they needed to raise their level of protection from DDoS attacks. (ANSA).