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Several national systems in Italy are the subject of a “massive ransomware attack” this Sunday (5), informs the Agency for National Cybersecurity (ACN). The kind of offensive forces victims to pay criminals to get their money back. shots.
According to the note, the technical of the institution have already detected “dozens of truly compromised systems and alerted many subjects who have exposed systems, but not yet compromised”.
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According to ACN, the attack focused on VMware ESXi servers and the exploited vulnerability had already been patched by the company in the past. But, “not everyone using the systems currently involved has resolved this” and the targeted servers, if they failed to take appropriate remedial action, “could open the door for hackers willing to exploit the issue in these hours after the strong growth of attacks recorded over the weekend”.
The exponential increase in cyber criminal actions started in France and spread to Italy and currently there are such notifications also in Finland, USA and Canada. ACN also says it predicts the number of attacks “will continue to rise.”
Earlier this year, a report by the Italian Postal and Communications Police pointed to a 138% increase in hacker attacks in the country in 2022 compared to 2021 figures. The war was started by Russia in February of Last year.
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