“An irreparable blow to Italy”. Threatening him on Monday 30th 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 Rome public prosecutor’s office. There was also an attempt – unsuccessful – to hit the platform of the Eurovision song contest held in Turin. And on Sunday afternoon, Csirt Italia, the response team in the event of an incident of the National Cybersecurity Agency, issued an alert, highlighting how “there continue to be signs and threats of possible imminent attacks against, in particular, individuals public nationals, private entities that provide a public utility service or private entities whose image is identified with the country of Italy “.
Csirt Italia: immediately mitigate vulnerabilities
The recommendation is to “implement with immediate effect” the “actions to mitigate vulnerabilities” and to “maintain careful control over IT infrastructures 24 hours a day”.
In a chat on Telegram Killnet first posted a message: “May 30 – 05:00 the meeting point is Italy!”. Later, with 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 in Italy due to the war with Anonymous. Will we at least be remembered in our native land? ».
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”, is 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.
Ddos attacks to “overload” the servers
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.