Russian Hackers Hit Italian Banks

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A pro-Russian hacker group, called NoName, has carried out cyber attacks on the websites of at least five Italian banks, the Italian cyber security agency said.

Italy’s cyber security agency has said that it had detected hacker attacks on Tuesday 1st August against websites of at least five banks, but the attacks probably began a day earlier.

The hit five banks included Intesa Sanpaolo, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, BPER Banca, FinecoBank and Banca Popolare di Sondrio.

These attacks have made it impossible to recently access some of their services, when the pro-Russian hackers first began targeting the Italian nation and its transportation sector on July 31st.

Two other banks were also named by the threat actors during the nearly 8-hour attack: Che Banca and Fideuram.

Che Banca is listed as the 16th largest bank in Italy, while Fideuram is a private bank and subsidiary of Intesa Sanpaolo, the number-one bank in Europe and the number-two bank in the world, according to its website.

The agency "identified the reactivation of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack campaigns by pro-Russian ... groups against national institutional subjects," a statement said.

The hackers used DDoS attacks, and hit the network with massive amounts of data traffic to shut them down.

Apparently the attacks only took down the websites for a relatively short period of time.

The agency said it provided swift assistance to the firms targeted by attacks from activists in the NoName group in order to mitigate any impact.

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