After the past few weeks, where there have been demonstrations in favor of Silvio Berlusconi's support for the Russian President, the current Prime Minister has positioned herself in favor of Ukraine in the conflict. This fact has enraged numerous cyberattackers, who have carried out a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) against several institutional websites.
This attack was claimed by the group NoName057. This collective has communicated on their Telegram channel that the motive for this attack is the constant support of the Italian government for Ukraine. The local newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore lists the affected websites: that of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, that of the Carabinieri, the BPER bank, and the telecommunications operator TIM. Dichas páginas debido al ataque estaban presididas por la imagen de un oso y una huella de una pata blanca en la “Tricolore” italiana, con frases haciendo referencia a la “Italia Rusofóbica”.
No es el primer ataque ocurrido en el país transalpino. A principios de febrero sufrieron numerosos cortes en el servicio de Internet derivados de un “ataque masivo”. Last year, fueron varios ataques ransomware que afectaron a la energética GSE, la petrolera Eni o la Agencia Tributaria.
Fountain: Digital Shield