Italy warns of possible global hacker attack

Italy’s National Cyber Security Agency (ACN) warned on Sunday (5) that thousands of servers worldwide suffered a hacker ransomware attack, Reuters news agency reported.

According to ACN Director General Roberto Baldoni, the attack sought to exploit a software vulnerability and happened on a large scale.

The servers that suffered the attack were compromised in other European countries, such as France and Finland, but also in the US and Canada, reported the Italian news agency Ansa, with information from ACN.

Italian organizations may have been affected, and many others have been warned to prevent their systems from being blocked and compromised.

Italy’s leading Internet service provider, Italia Telecom, received reports of Internet problems from its customers on Sunday.

Still, the company could not say whether those reports are linked to the attack.

With information from Brasil Sem Medo

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