Hacker attacks at Italian airports: Red alarm level for cyber security!

Hacker attacks at Italian airports: Red alarm level for cyber security!

Vienna, Österreich - A serious hacker attack hit the two important airports in Milan, Linate and Malpensa. This campaign, which was committed by the Noname057 group, was a "well-deserved answer for Italy's Russia haters". In addition to the airports, several other important Italian websites, including the Foreign Ministry and various transport companies, were attacked. The Italian cyber security authority switches on to examine the events and has already identified a method in which the servers are flooded with a huge amount of data traffic to paralyze them. Fortunately, the effects of this attack could be limited within a few hours, such as vienna.at reported.

rising cyber threats also in Germany

At the same time, the Federal Criminal Police Office warns of a worrying increase in ransomware attacks on public institutions in Germany. These attacks in which the IT infrastructure suffers significant financial damage can in turn lead to serious impairments in the provision of public services. A concise example of this is the attack on the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld in July, in which important services could only be provided for weeks, which required weeks to months for full restoration. According to bka.de it is crucial that authorities and public businesses update their IT security strategies regularly and train employees in cyber security, to the dangers of cyber attacks actively counteract.