Farnesina under hacker attack after Moscow's accusations against Tajani

First Moscow attacks Antonio Tajani. Then the hackers hit the Farnesina website. The blitz by "No Name", a pro-Kremlin collective, comes after the Russian attack against the Foreign Minister's warnings about the risk of interference in the next Italian parliamentary elections. The sequence is suspicious: there is a link between the diplomatic clash and the cyber assault. According to the Farnesina, the defenses held up without any disruption. The Rome Prosecutor's Office has opened an investigation.

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The attack was intercepted by the National Cybersecurity Agency, which immediately notified the Foreign Ministry. The protection systems, according to what was communicated by the Farnesina, contained the assault: «The website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the subject of a cyber attack, which so far has been effectively mitigated by the protection systems, without causing disruptions».

Monitoring is constant and involves the Ministry together with the National Strategic Hub, the company that manages the State Cloud.

Tajani claims the strengthening of defenses: «cybersecurity is a central element of the Farnesina reform approved last year. In recent months we have strengthened our capabilities for prevention, monitoring and response to threats, adopting all the necessary countermeasures also on a technological level."

A few hours earlier, the spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, had defined Tajani's recent warnings as "unhealthy" and "disrespectful" towards Italians. He accused the minister of having played the "Russian card": the reference is to the statements made last September 2 in Wicklow, Ireland, during the informal meeting of EU Foreign Ministers.