Italy’s Internet Restored After Nationwide Outage; Reports Of Global Ransomware Attack

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    Network data from NetBlocks shows internet across Italy has mostly been restored after more than five hours of outages.

    Reuters confirmed the outage was due to “an international interconnection problem.”

    In a separate report, Reuters said that Italy’s National Cybersecurity Agency warned about a ransomware attack targeting servers worldwide.

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    The hacking attack sought to exploit a software vulnerability, ACN director general Roberto Baldoni told Reuters, adding it was on a massive scale.

    Italy’s ANSA news agency, citing the ACN, reported that servers had been compromised in other European countries such as France and Finland as well as the United States and Canada. -RTRS

    The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) was aware of the attack. The agency said:

    “CISA is working with our public and private sector partners to assess the impacts of these reported incidents and providing assistance where needed.” 

    Reuters pointed out that the cyberattack and Italy’s internet outage “were not believed to be related.”

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