Russian hacker attack. Killnet announces: "Irreparable blow against Italy"

Italy threatened by Russian hackers. Thousands of sensitive data at risk

There war in Ukraine has been going on for more than three months tirelessly. But in addition to the armed conflict, in parallel, the cyber attacks to systems computer scientists of the countries that support the Zelensky government by the Russian hackersattributable to Kremlin. Killnet – reads the Corriere della Sera – is one of the most active groups. It is related to the collective Legionwhich gathers hackers who aim to attack institutions sites And western companies. They have stated that their goal is attack “the Countries Born And Ukraine“. Yesterday that same acronym of the pirate collective returned to threaten Italy with a message Telegram announcing a “irreparable blow“for today:” May 30 – 05:00 the meeting point is Italy! “.

There was a breakthrough – continues the Corriere – in hacker attacks recently launched against some institutional sites Italians. To the aggressions “impeditive», Run with the method that saturates and effectively paralyzes the servers preventing them from continuing to provide servicesthose “intrusive», Which aim at steal data. It happened during the last actions implemented in the past weeks: together with the block of the internet networks to which the ministries of the Defenceof the Foreignof the Cultural heritage And of Educationthe High Council of the Judiciary and numerous other structures including some airportsa couple of activities were triggered which, investigators suspect, had the aim of exfiltrating sensitive information.