Hacker attacks, a summit on flaws and countermeasures at the Interior Ministry on Tuesday

A summit to monitor still vulnerable IT systems, new protocols for infrastructures that require more protection and evaluation of investigative leads on recent cyber attacks. A crackdown against hybrid warfare could be implemented at the Interior Ministry next Tuesday: the National Committee for Public Order and Security, convened by the Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, will therefore bring together the heads of the police forces and intelligence services to delve into the prevention aspects but also to understand the origins and provenances of the hacker offensive of recent days, from false alarms to cold chain sabotage, up to the publications and search for sensitive data of politicians and investigators by computer pirates on the dark web.

If the hypothesis is confirmed that some of the threatening messages directed at Italian airports originated from punctured emails from schools, a reflection could be started on the need to raise the level of cyber defense of institutions in the country.

Other messages, however, had simply been anonymized with the 'Proton mail' system. In short, all the flaws that allowed cyber pirates to act so easily will have to be sifted through, as well as a screening of the infrastructures that are still too exposed, to identify those who are still discovered and adapt them to more stringent protocols.

This is also in light of those hacks that even hit Montecitorio a few days ago, where the email accounts of some deputies were hacked, including that of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

It is no coincidence that the Computer security incident response team Italy (Csirt) found that in the first 9 months of 2026, almost 45 thousand assets and services at risk were identified with over 3,200 assets potentially compromised.

According to the numbers reported by the ACN, in the first nine months of 2026 there were 3,271 cyber events detected compared to a total of 2,729 in the whole of 2025: among these, 1,992 classified as 'incidents', i.e. events with a confirmed impact. Then there is the question of the actual identity of the cyber criminals and their possible coordination. The cyber offensives in Italy and throughout Europe have diversified and the spotlight has turned especially on the pro-Russian Noname collective (some actions were actually claimed by them). But there is no certainty about the attribution of all the attacks to the same hacker group and the hypothesis remains that there may be those who want to ride the strategy of chaos among computer networks, hiding behind the acronym of the most well-known hackers.

The investigations are thorough but far from over; the National Cybersecurity Agency has sent information to the National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office, which is coordinating the district offices, just as the Postal Police continues with its investigative activity. A series of elements will be collected and compared and then brought to the next meeting, again this week, announced by Europol, which has convened the investigative forces of all the countries involved in the attacks of recent days.

Beyond the specific focus, at the meeting of the National Committee for public order and security of the Interior Ministry - in which the heads of the Police, Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza also participate - other topics should also be addressed, such as the periodic update on the 'Safe Roads' operation, which concerns the use of Army soldiers located in various sensitive points throughout the country, and a point on the next hirings planned within the Police.