12 minutes agoItalian police prevented a pro-Russian hacker attack during Eurovision
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)Italian police prevented hackers' attacks by pro-Russian groups during the May 10th semifinal and Saturday's Eurovision Song Contest final in Turin, authorities said Sunday. During voting and shows, the cyber security police department blocked several cyber attacks on network infrastructure from the group of hackers “Kilnet” and the subsidiary of [...]
During voting and shows, the cyber security police department blocked several cyber attacks on network infrastructure from the group of hackers “Kilnet” and its subsidiary “Legion”, police said.
Police also collected information from the pro-rus group's Telegram channels to prevent other critical events and identified the geographical location of the attacks.
On 11 May, “Kilnet” claimed an attack on the websites of several Italian institutions, including the Senate, Italy's upper parliament chamber and National Institute of Health (ISS), the ANSA news agency reported.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24th, many Western governments have raised alarm levels pending possible cyber attacks on IT systems and infrastructure.
Russia routinely denies that it carried out cyberattack operations.
