Cyber ​​attacks foiled at the Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision, final from 'Thrills':

(ANSA) – ROME, MAY 15 – Cyber ​​attacks “from abroad” at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 have been thwarted by the State Police. Hackers tried to infiltrate on opening night and last night’s final.

The activation of an operations room dedicated to the Eurovision event in which technicians and specialist policemen of the Cnaipic (National Anti-Crime Computer Protection Center for Critical Infrastructures) of the Postal Police worked side by side 24 hours a day, allowed the neutralization of cyber attacks by the killnet collective and its offshoot “Legion”.

Several computer attacks of a Ddos nature aimed at the network infrastructures during voting operations and singing performances were mitigated in collaboration with the ICT Rai and Eurovision TV management. From the analysis of the evidence, the Cnaipic of the Postal Police identified numerous’ PC-zombies’ used for the cyber attack ‘. Further analyzes and insights outlined the geographic mapping of attacks from abroad.

The info-preventive activity conducted by the Cnaipic staff of the Postal Police on the basis of the analysis of the information obtained from the telegram channels of the pro-Russian group, also made it possible to infer important safety information, already shared with Rai for the prevention of further critical events. The Cnaipic operations room carried out more than 1000 hours of monitoring with over 100 Postal Police specialists. The entire network was monitored and billions of computer data also coming from the various social platforms were analyzed.

During the activities – concludes the Police – millions of analyzes of data relating to compromised IPs were carried out, which made it possible to issue important procedures, thanks to which the attacks were ‘mitigated and repelled’.

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Source: Ansa

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