Rejected new hacker attack on the Lazio Region

“Last night the information systems of the Lazio Region suffered and repelled yet another hacker attack.” “The attention and collaboration with the competent authorities to restore security remains the utmost”, communicates the Lazio Region in a note. Read also In the meantime, the prosecutors of anti-terrorism and the IT crime pool of the Rome Prosecutor’s Office are investigating the hacker attack that hit the Lazio Regional Ced a few minutes after midnight on Sunday. A first report from the Postal Police, which has launched a close investigation in agreement with the magistrates of piazzale Clodio, arrived yesterday afternoon on the table of the chief prosecutor Michele Prestipino who coordinates the investigation together with the deputy prosecutor Angelantonio Racanelli. In the file, formally opened this morning against unknown persons, various crimes are prosecuted including unauthorized access to a computer system and attempted extortion. According to what has emerged so far, the attack with cryptolocker ransomware, a malware that encrypts data and then extorts money, in this case did not lead to a ‘ransom’ request. The investigations aim to shed light on the origin and purpose of the violent attack, which also resulted in the deactivation of the vaccine portal. An offensive started from abroad with a possible rebound in Germany. The investigation is entrusted to both pools, with two substitutes, since the attack involved an important IT system such as that of Lazio, also from the point of view of the protection of sensitive data also of personalities of the State such as the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella and Prime Minister Mario Draghi. The Lazio region also announced in a note that “the services for booking vaccines and the vaccination registry will be restored within 72 hours. At the same time, all data from services that were not attacked, such as health data, were isolated and secured in special clouds. Currently, it is recalled once again that the services of the Civil Protection, 118, 112 and the transfusion center are active. The data of the regional budget are safe and by the end of August the regional payment systems will also be reactivated “.