Malware capable of destroying data from key strategic infrastructures would be ready in response to sanctions on Moscow By: VirgilioNotizie | Published on: 02-25-2022 09:58
A cyber virus would be ready for Italy as an immediate effect of the war in Ukraine. This is what was reported by the undersecretary with the delegation to the secret servants, Franco Gabrielli, first in the hearing with Copasir and then in the Interministerial Committee for Security, before Prime Minister Mario Draghi, the ministers and the director of Dis Elisabetta Belloni. The former police chief said that the hacker attack aimed at our country is one of the five risk scenarios that the Russian-Ukrainian conflict could cause. Cyber attack on Italy, the alarm of the secret services on the war in Ukraine: the 5 possible scenarios According to what reported by Repubblica in summary, the undersecretary for services Gabrielli communicated to the Parliamentary Commission for Security five potential reactions that Italy could suffer due to the war in Ukraine: the energy crisis, due to the almost certain reduction in gas supplies Russian; the increase in the prices of basic necessities; cyber attacks on the country's main infrastructures; the block on exports, due to the economic sanctions that will be applied to the Moscow government and a new front of migrants from Ukraine.
If, in fact, on the one hand it will be necessary for Italy to decide whether to send new military forces to the NATO forces in Romania and the Baltic countries, on the other hand it will have to strengthen the defenses to the computer system on the front of the cyber war parallel to the conflict, already in act in Ukraine. In Kiev, some of the main Ukrainian infrastructures, several ministries and two credit institutions, were attacked by hackers who Western intelligence identified as being of Russian nationality.
Cyber attack on Italy, the alarm of the secret services on the war in Ukraine: the cyber danger According to experts, the cyber threat in the coming days could also be addressed to other countries, in response to the economic sanctions against Moscow, and Italy would be one of the targets of the criminals of the network with, among the companies to be protected first, those that deal with energy. According to the cybersecurity agency led by Roberto Baldoni, malware "capable of destroying data" has already been identified that has raised the alert level to the maximum on strategic infrastructures. Cyber attack on Italy, the alarm of the secret services on the war in Ukraine: the EU response For this reason, on EU initiatives, some European countries such as Lithuania, Croatia, Poland, Estonia, Romania and the Netherlands have activated a group of experts to respond to cyber attacks: the cyber rapid-response team (CRRT), which is working both from Ukraine is at a distance to strengthen defense and cooperation between member states.
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