The National Cybersecurity Agency's
CSIRT response team said Friday that Russian cyber attacks on
Italian targets are likely to get more challenging after the
websites of several institutions came under assault this week.
It referred to an "upsurge of the campaigns of attack of recent
days on (Italian) national institutions that pro-Russian parties
have claimed responsibility for" and the "possible move to a
campaign of more complicated attacks".
Given this, it said it has identified 71 areas of vulnerability
that "should be urgently resolved as a priority within a process
of risk management by the most exposed operators (including
agencies managing critical infrastructure".
The websites of the Senate, the defence ministry and other
public institutions came under a cyber attack from pro-Russian
hackers on Wednesday.
The 'Killnet' group, which experts say has links to Russia's
armed forces and has threatened further actions, claimed
responsibility for the attacks via Telegram.
Access to the sites involved was restored after a few hours.
Italy has staunchly supported Western sanctions on Russia after
its invasion of Ukraine and is providing military support to
Kyiv.
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