Meeting at Palazzo Chigi after the hacker attacks on supermarkets: 'Maximum alert, but no alarm'

From the first investigations it emerges that in Italy the impact of the attacks is currently highly limited: few commercial units were affected, compared to the thousands present throughout the national territory, mostly still equipped with obsolete security systems, with interfaces exposed directly on the Internet and deficiencies in the authentication mechanisms. Most of the distribution chain is instead equipped with updated protection systems, capable of repelling malicious intrusions. Thus a note from Palazzo Chigi after the meeting of the undersecretary Alfredo Mantovano together with the minister Francesco Lollobrigida with the leaders of the services and the National Cybersecurity Agency.

The postal police have launched investigations to shed light on the attacks. According to what we learn, there are currently two episodes and they occurred in Sicily and Emilia Romagna.

The government "in all its aspects will continue to act along four lines: monitoring and analysis of the threat, an activity which has already started months ago; constant dialogue with suppliers and sellers of the food supply chain; identification and timely notification of exposed subjects; large-scale dissemination of preventive communications and indications for the mitigation of risks in the sectors concerned". Thus Palazzo Chigi said in a note at the end of the meeting with Undersecretary Mantovano and Minister Lollobrigida, in which the director of the National Cybersecurity Agency (ACN) and the directors of the intelligence agencies participated, following the hacker attacks that are affecting some commercial refrigeration systems in Europe.