A pro-Russian hacker group,
Noname057(16), staged for the third consecutive morning on
Wednesday a new wave of cyberattacks against Italian
institutions, targeting banks and arms industries, as well as
public transport companies.
Mediobanca, Nexi, Benelli, Fiocchi and Danieli were among those
affected by the cyberattacks.
As with the other attacks, which had 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 agency for national cybersecurity intervened to alert the
companies and help them restore the affected services.
The hacker group linked Monday's 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".
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