Hacker, public safety committee meeting today. Tajani: “Attacks against the West”

The meeting of the National Committee for Public Order and Security is being held today: the summit has the aim of examining the risks associated with cyber attacks and the cyber threat, in light of what has happened in Italy, and not only, in recent days and weeks, including bomb alerts on planes, digital cold chain sabotage in some companies and the dissemination of sensitive data of representatives of politicians and investigators. A meeting during which, explained the Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi, "we will make assessments on any repercussions on public safety that these episodes are having. In this case, for example, there have been some presences on the dark web of requests for data concerning important personalities such as the Foreign Minister, the Rome prosecutor, our head of the postal police service. So it is right to try to understand what is behind it and above all what repercussions there may be for the safety of people and for the community".

The G7 Foreign Affairs and Tajani's intervention

It cannot be ruled out that among the focuses of the summit there may also be the topic of the risks of foreign interference in the next electoral rounds in Italy, starting from the political ones, with attempts to manipulate consensus through fake news: a leap forward in hybrid warfare that could leave room for cognitive ones, such as digital manipulation campaigns. Meanwhile, the G7 summit of foreign ministers is underway, where Antonio Tajani declared: "Certainly the hybrid attacks involving Italy are by pro-Russian hackers. We don't know if the government is behind it. We can't talk about Russia, but they are pro-Russian hackers by their own admission. We will see who are the directors of the other attacks in Europe. Certainly they are attacks that happen at the same time and evidently there is coordination."

“United to give a strong signal to those seeking chaos in Europe”

"It is important for us to be united, to give a strong signal of response to those who at this stage are trying to cause chaos in Europe and the West", added Minister Tajani at the Quai d'Orsay. "Wherever these attacks come from, they are hostile attacks. They are attacks against the West, against our democratic system. We must react, organize ourselves, strengthen coordination. This is why I asked Kaja Kallas to put the issue of hybrid warfare at the center of the meeting of European Union foreign ministers on Monday." The head of the Farnesina then underlined that the hybrid ones are attacks "on our model of life, both those on refrigerators and those on blood reserves, those through cyber attacks as happened in Italy, those through pro-Russian hackers who attacked some people in Italy, from Dr. Lo Voi to Dr. Gabrielli, to me".