Hacker attack in the Lazio Region, Zingaretti: “Serious situation”

” In the night between Saturday and Sunday, the Lazio Region suffered a very powerful and very invasive cyber attack ”. This was stated by the president of the Lazio Region Nicola Zingaretti in the press conference on the hacker attack on the Lazio Vaccinale Ced. Read also “The situation is very serious as these cybercrime attacks, which have already occurred in other corners of the world, are very invasive and the solution is very complex. Faced with attacks, there is no doubt that the most important signal to give is not to interrupt the institutional activities of the body “, adds Zingaretti, underlining that it is” a violent cyber attack by international criminal or terrorist groups, the investigations will establish the contours, which has inserted a ransomware, or a virus which has encrypted our online world and blocked the ability to deliver most of the services to the community. ” “Already from the early hours of yesterday, all the investigative institutions in the country and all levels of governance were alerted regarding the cybersecurity of the national institutional system. LazioCrea informs us that the data from the Healthcare database of our Region are safe, saved and clean from the cyber attack, as well as other data. The data robbery did not go through. We are therefore in a situation of commitment to reactivate health services in the first place. The network is stopped precisely because the presence of the virus prevents the reactivation of the system for obvious reasons, which would allow it to circulate freely within our network “, explains the governor of Lazio. ” Lazio is the victim of a criminal offensive, probably the most serious ever to take place on our national territory. In the night between Sunday and Monday, at 2.30 there was a new attempt to access the system, which was rejected and this second did not cause further damage to the efficiency of the network ”, continues Zingaretti. ” Almost all data center files and vaccine reservations have been blocked. Reservations are still firm. At the moment the system is turned off to allow the internal verification of the system, above all it is not possible to turn it back on to avoid the propagation of further damage and also because the attacks are still in progress and therefore it is advisable to defend the system. The situation – he repeats – is very serious and very serious ”.