There has been no cyberattack on the Revenue Agency, and no data has been stolen. If anything, as appears from the first findings, the profile of a professional would have been hacked but without being able to ‘pierce’ up to the public data of the Agency. After a day of alarm and investigations, Sogei, a public company that manages the IT platform of the financial administration, thus excludes the worst: “From the first analyzes carried out – he informs – no cyber attacks have occurred or data have been stolen from the platforms and technological infrastructures of the Financial Administration “. Therefore, the breach through which, according to initial information, 78 gigabytes of data would have been stolen from the administration is excluded. The personal information of Italian taxpayers, therefore, would be safe. But despite this, the authorities and the police are continuing their investigations and the Rome Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation.
On the dock is the ‘cyber gang’ LockBit, a group of hackers that some believe operate for Russia and which is active worldwide in the activities of ransonwere, that is the virus that restricts access to the device it infects by requesting a ransom for remove the restriction. The group, according to rumors circulated, would have asked for a ransom of 5 million to the Revenue Agency to release the data, and would have threatened to publish them on the net if the money had not arrived. The alarm went off in the middle of the day, when it emerged that investigations were underway by the Postal Police and the administration’s IT technicians. According to experts, it would have been the work of LockBit, which would have given the Agency an ultimatum of 5 days. The Revenue Agency therefore immediately requested Sogei’s intervention: “With reference to the news about the alleged theft of data from the tax information system, the Revenue Agency specifies that it immediately asked Sogei for feedback and clarifications, public company wholly owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance, which manages the technological infrastructures of the financial administration and which is carrying out all the necessary checks “. Meanwhile, the public prosecutor of Rome let it be known that “the prosecutors have launched an investigation with the aim of verifying the alleged hacker attack. A first report from the Postal Police and in particular from the specialists of the National Cybercrime Center for the Protection of Critical Infrastructures (Cnaipic) In the light of the dossier that will be transmitted, the magistrates could hypothesize the crimes of abusive access to the computer system and attempted extortion.
It is not excluded that the investigation activity may involve other pools in addition to prosecutors who deal with computer crimes “.
According to ‘Swascan’, the security hub of the Tinexta group, it was the Lockbit group itself that announced on the darkweb that it had stolen 78 gigabytes of data from the Revenue Agency with malware. And again on the darkweb he would have launched the ultimatum to the Agency.
Source: Ansa
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