by Massimo Nesticò
"An irreparable blow to Italy".
Threatening him for today are the pro-Russian hackers of
the Killnet collective
, who return to make themselves heard after the attacks launched in recent weeks against institutional sites (from the Senate to the Ministry of Defense, from the Police to the CSM), companies and airports, on which it has opened a dossier from the public prosecutor's office of Rome.
There was also an attempt - unsuccessful - to hit the platform of the Eurovision song contest held in Turin.
And yesterday afternoon Csirt Italia, the response team in the event of an incident of the National Cybersecurity Agency, issued an alert, highlighting how "signs and threats of possible imminent attacks against, in particular, individuals continue to be detected. public nationals, private entities that provide a public utility service or private entities whose image is identified with the country of Italy ".
The recommendation is to "implement with immediate effect" the "actions to mitigate vulnerabilities" and to "maintain careful control over IT infrastructures (Information technology, ed.) 24 hours a day".
In a chat on Telegram Killnet first posted a message:
"May 30 - 05:00 the meeting point is Italy!"
.
Later, in his usual ironic tone, he added: "I have always been interested in one question: does Russia generally support our activities? Since we will make
an irreparable blow to Italy
due to the war with Anonymous. We will at least be remembered in our homeland. ? ".
The reference is to the action of Anonymous which in recent days had made the pro-Russian site 'killnet.ru' inaccessible, declaring war on 'rival' hackers.
"We called Fake Anonymous on the battlefield in Italy if they can't stop us as promised", the reply from Killnet, who received the support of Legion, an affiliated group on the same chat: "get ready ', wrote the latter with the fire emoticon.
The attacks recorded in the past weeks have been of the Ddos (Distributed denial of service) type.
In practice, a huge amount of requests are sent to the target website, which is unable to handle them and therefore to function properly.
Undersecretary
Franco Gabrielli
, Authority delegated to the security of the Republic, in recent days invited us not to be alarmed: "There is no need - he explained - to have a hysterical attitude. If every time there is a 'Dos' attack we think that the country it is at the mercy of foreign powers you do not understand the level of threat ".
Moreover, the 'Dos', specified the National Cybersecurity Agency, "do not affect the integrity and confidentiality of the information and systems affected, unlike, for example,