Italy hit in Hacker attack

A massive hacker  attack through a ransonware  already in circulation has been detected by the Italy Computer security incident response team of the National Cybersecurity Agency. The ACN technicians have already surveyed "several dozen probably-compromised National Systems, and alerted numerous subjects whose systems are exposed but not yet compromised".

I primi ad accorgersi dell’attacco sono stati i francesi, probabilmente per via dell’ampio numero di infezioni registrate sui sistemi di alcuni provider in quel Paese. Successivamente l’ondata di attacchi si è sposta su altri paesi tra cui l’Italia.

There are currently a few thousand compromised servers around the world, from European countries such as France - the most affected country - Finland and Italy, to North America, Canada and the United States. In Italy there are dozens of realities that have encountered malicious activity against them but, according to analysts, they are destined to increase. The exploitation of the vulnerability, the Agency explains, "allows in a subsequent phase to carry out ransomware attacks that encrypt the affected systems making them unusable until a ransom is paid for the decryption key".

Editorial Team