A pro-Russian hacker group,
Noname057(16), staged a new wave of cyberattacks on Italian
institutions on Tuesday, targetting the websites of several
ministries, the Carabinieri and Finance police forces and some
transport companies, among others. As with Monday's attacks on
some 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. As with Monday's attacks, the National Cybersecurity
Agency's sensors warned the targets in good time of the
offensive and it had little effect. 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 Monday that Mattarella's comments will not go "without
consequences".
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