The Internet service in Italy suffered interruptions this Sunday due to a “massive attack”, which will also have affected other countries in Europe and North America, the origin of which is unknown, according to the National Cybersecurity Agency.
Contacted by rong>TSFong>, the Portuguese counterpart said that no difficulties were detected in the national systems.
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The Italian enlisted man explained that it could be an attack by data hijacking and identified targeted VMware ESXi servers, which had already shown some vulnerability in other similar incidents in the past, reports the Rai network.
The National Agency
Cybersecurity has already inspected “dozens of systems” that may have been compromised and has requested updates “immediately” in the case of some servers that were “exposed” to the attack, but could not be traced.
The method data hijackingwhich is commonly used by hackers and it is also used in this case, it is about blocking the system under the premise of asking the user for money in exchange for releasing it.
Source: TSF
