Italy probes possible cyberattack on anti-mafia directorate - Anadolu Ajansı

Checks were underway Monday at Italy’s Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate to determine whether a cyberattack had compromised its systems, Italian news agency ANSA reported.

According to social media posts cited by ANSA, a user known as ‘weykofa’ offered an archive of 300 files totaling more than 220 megabytes for sale on the dark web. The user also reportedly demanded a ransom in bitcoin.

The alleged stolen material included information on more than 20 organized crime groups, investigation records, internal statistics, personnel data, financial documents and correspondence with Europol and the European Union.

Meanwhile, Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said a meeting of the National Committee for Public Order and Security scheduled for Tuesday would examine risks related to cyberattacks and potential threats to public security.

Speaking in Diamante in southern Italy, Piantedosi also referred to reports that data concerning several officials, including Italy’s foreign minister, the Rome prosecutor and the head of the Postal and Communications Police, had been offered for sale on the dark web.

"It is right to try to understand what lies behind this and, above all, what repercussions there may be for people's security and the community," he said.

Piantedosi said the authorities would also seek to establish the motives behind the incidents and identify the measures needed to address them.

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