{"id":418991,"date":"2025-02-18T11:50:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T10:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/02\/18\/litalia-di-nuovo-sotto-attacco-hacker-russi-colpiscono-i-siti-dei-ministeri-e-della-guardia-di-finanza\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T14:18:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T13:18:02","slug":"italy-under-attack-again-russian-hackers-target-ministries-and-guardia-di-finanza-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/02\/18\/italy-under-attack-again-russian-hackers-target-ministries-and-guardia-di-finanza-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy under attack again: Russian hackers target Ministries and Guardia di Finanza sites"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rome – This morning\u00a0<\/strong>(Feb. 18), the\u00a0Italian government and military sites came under\u00a0a cyber-attack from Russia<\/strong>, claimed on Telegram by the hacker collective\u00a0NoName057(16)<\/strong>. The attacks began as early as yesterday<\/strong> when the group targeted local and air transport services and banking institutions<\/strong> (including Banca Intesa Sanpaolo and Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena), congesting websites and making it impossible for users to access them. Today’s offensive, on the other hand, saw some 20 targets in the crosshairs – including the ministries of Economy, Foreign Affairs, Economic Development, Infrastructure, and Transport<\/strong>, but also the sites of the Carabinieri (military police), Guardia di Finanza (financial police), and the Air Force<\/strong> – victims, again, of DDoS attacks<\/strong><\/a> (Distributed Denial of Service).<\/p>\n

What allegedly triggered the attack\u00a0was the reference to\u00a0the actions of today’s Russia and the Third Reich that annexed the Sudetenland, evoked during President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella’s speech<\/a> at the University of Marseille<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0Feb. 5.\u00a0Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova <\/strong>harshly criticized the words saying: “During a lecture at one of the educational institutions, he said that he believed that Russia could be equated with the Third Reich. This cannot and will never be left without consequences<\/strong>,” the spokeswoman said according to Russia’s official Ria Novosti news agency.<\/p>\n

On a new Telegram<\/strong> channel, hackers reminded the President of the Republic how “the Italian fascist regime of Mussolini was a loyal ally of Nazi Germany” and, today, “Italy is willingly supplying\u00a0the neo-Nazi terrorist regime in Kyiv with deadly weapons.”<\/p>\n

NoName057 had previously caused disruptions coinciding with controversies between\u00a0Rome and Moscow. However, this time, the National Cybersecurity Agency<\/strong>\u00a0also intercepted the wave and provided timely<\/strong>\u00a0warnings to the targets of the attack<\/strong>, which had a minimal\u00a0impact.\u00a0In any case, according to experts, these are purely propagandistic and demonstrative<\/strong> actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Punishment for Italy with DDoS missiles” in response to the words of Sergio Mattarella. It is the second attack in 24 hours, but damage is limited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7883,"featured_media":246260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25712],"tags":[27226,27722],"class_list":["post-418991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-hacker-en","tag-italy-en-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7883"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418991"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419044,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418991\/revisions\/419044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}