Pro-Russia collective NoName057(16) launched a new wave of DDoS attacks on Italian sites

Pro-Russia collective NoName057(16) launched DDoS attacks on Italian sites, targeting airports, the Transport Authority, major ports, and banks.

The pro-Russia hacker group NoName057(16) launched a new wave of DDoS attacks this morning against multiple Italian entities. The group targeted the websites of Linate and Malpensa airports, the Transport Authority, the bank Intesa San Paolo, and the ports of Taranto and Trieste. The attacks had a minor impact on the targets, the Italian National Cybersecurity Agency (ACN) promptly operated to support the impacted organizations and neutralize the attacks in an early stage.

The group relied on well-known techniques that the Italian government can mitigate.

The attacks are the response to President Mattarella’s statements, whom they labeled a “Russophobe,” regarding Russia and the Third Reich.

“Recently, the President of Italy, speaking at the University of Marseille, drew historical parallels between the Russian Federation and Nazi Germany, claiming that Russia’s actions in Ukraine are “similar in nature” to the Third Reich’s project in Europe.

However, Sergio Mattarella conveniently ignored the fact that Mussolini’s fascist regime was a loyal ally of Nazi Germany under the Steel Pact, the Anti-Comintern Pact, and the Berlin Pact. In 1941, Italy even provided Hitler with a 235,000-strong expeditionary corps to join the aggression against the USSR.

We see the same thing happening today—Italy eagerly supplies the neo-Nazi terrorist Kyiv regime with deadly weapons, while its leaders still try to lecture Russia. Read More