Italy Alerts Organizations of Incoming DDoS Attacks

On Monday, Italy’s Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) issued an urgent warning about the significant threat of cyberattacks against national entities. The Italian organisation is referring to a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) cyberattack, which may not be catastrophic but can nonetheless cause financial and other harm due to service failures and interruptions. 

“There continue to be signs and threats of possible imminent attacks against, in particular, national public entities, private entities providing a public utility service or private entities whose image is identified with the country of Italy,” describes the public alert. 

The indicators are Telegram postings from the Killnet organisation inciting massive and unprecedented assaults on Italy. Killnet is a pro-Russian hacktivist group that launched an attack on Italy two weeks ago, employing an ancient but still powerful DDoS technique known as ‘Slow HTTP.’ As a result, CSIRT’s advised defensive actions this time are related to this sort of assault but also contain numerous generic pieces of advice. 

Last Tuesday, Killnet announced “Operation Panopticon,” appealing for 3,000 “cyber fighters” to join in 72 hours. Last week, the group restated the call to action multiple times. The necessary sign-up form requests information on the volunteers’ system, origin, age, and Telegram account, as well as the tools needed to launch re

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