Russian hackers, Rome under fire? “Killnet targeted the Capitol” – Chronicle
Rome, 20 May 2022 – Campidoglio under hacker attack, the alarm is raised in Rome against the Russian incursion. “Rome Capital is among the cyber warfare targets in place after the Russian aggression against Ukraine. In recent days, same pirate of the collective Killnet they also targeted the network and the site of the Capitol“. A makes known is Flavia De Gregoriogroup leader of the Calenda List in the Capitoline assembly, which today asked for a meeting to call a special to take stock of the cyber security of the capital.
Killnet is scary, Kill
“We learn with having an attack underway again pirate to the Italian institutional sites by pirate Russians, attributable to Collective Killnet“, says city councilor De Gregorio. I’m about fifty objectives indicated by the Russian collective, between ministries and institutional websites, companies, guarantee authorities, media, judicial bodies. “In February – continues the parent company – we presented a question, to which we have not yet received an answer, for know the countermeasures and defenses implemented by Capitolto avoid the repetition of what happened a year ago to the detriment of the IT system of the Region Lazio “. The attack then caused the chaos in the booking system of anti Covid vaccinations.
Rome, what measures against cyber attacks?
“The groups of pirate Russian thread they’ve been busy for weeks check western computer networks, underestimating this threat could prove to be extremely damaging ”, underlines De Gregorio. It is for this reason that today the group leader of the Calenda List sent an official request to convene the conference of group leaders to the president of the Capitoline assembly, Svetlana Celliand al S.indigo Roberto Gualtieri to “obtain reassurance through confidential information on the measures taken that the Capitoline administration intends to take to prevent any further cyber attacks”.
“I solicit the call one special gatheringAnd of the group leaders’ conference, which I hope will be convened as soon as possible by President Celli during which – concludes De Gregorio – the mayor Gualtieri, who held the delegation of IT systemsand the technicians of the Municipality expose the cybersecurity measures adopted by Capitol“.
Urso: “We are all potential victims”
Against attacks pirate “There are countermeasures, we need to apply the most strict security protocols in every window ”, dice Adolfo Urso, the chairman of the Copasir parliamentary safety committee. “Soon we will finally have a national cloud for the public administration, to put more in security the data of the Public Administration. There is also more to do for example as far as cyber defense, we must relate to active measures for locate the source of attack. We need to be aware of this and create widespread resilience in the country, because each of us remains a potential victim of an attack pirate with home work. The EU asks us to increase resilience in the country, more can be done “.