Italy’s National Cybersecurity Agency warns of massive global hacking attack
Organisations across the world have been warned by Italy’s National
Cybersecurity Agency about a massive global ransomware hacking attack on
servers.
Italy’s National Cybersecurity Agency today, Sunday, February 5,
warned organisations globally to take imminent action to protect their
systems. Their advice came after a hacking attack was carried out on
computer servers across the world.
According to the Agency, thousands of computers across the world have
been compromised by a massive ransomware hacking attack. Speaking with
the Reuters news agency,
Roberto Baldoni, the ACN director general, told them that the hacking
attack sought to exploit a software vulnerability. It was on a massive
scale he added.
Servers have been compromised across the world, including in the USA, Canada, Finland, and France reported Italian news outlet ANSA,
citing the ACN. Organisations throughout Italy are very likely to have
been affected by this attack. To avoid being locked out of their
systems, the ACN urged them to take preventative action.
Earlier today, large parts of Italy were affected by a massive
internet outage. The problem was reported by Telecom Italia although the
issue was not thought to be connected to the hacker attack. TIM blamed
the incident on a glitch with an international link.
Customers
from as far afield as Sicily in the south of Italy to Milan in the
north of the country reported problems with their internet services.
