(Finance) – I Italian ports are in the sights of hackers. Yesterday the offensive claimed on Telegram by “Legion”, an offshoot of the pro-Russian activist group Killnet, hit i websites of the ports of Trieste, Genoa, Livorno, Cagliari, Gioia Tauro, Ravenna, Venice, Messina, Taranto, Naples, La Spezia, Salerno and Savona. In the morning today, however, the site of the Port Authority of the Western Ligurian Sea.
Come on data disseminated by Federlogistica-Conftrasporto there is an increase in attacks on maritime activities, and in particular on ports, of over 900% in the last three years. The IMO data agrees with the very recent ones released by Naval Dome, the Israeli security company that triggered the maximum alert on the risk of hacker attacks on port facilities, with the aim of causing their collapse.
“But in the face of this real danger and an increasingly significant number of Port System Authorities, including those of Genoa and Savona and that of Venice, as well as some terminals, target of hacker offensives – denunciation Luigi Merlo, president of Federlogistica – Conftransport – the Ministry of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility he continues to behave as if nothing were happening and is dedicated, in a monothematic way, to the legitimate and certainly important issue of sustainability “.
The Government – underlines the association – has moved decisively by setting up an ad hoc Agency to address these dangers and the Postal Police is fighting at the forefront and commendably the battle to protect a country that should instead be able to manage structurally, the challenge of cyber security: on the other hand, the repeated appeals made to MIMs have not been heard. “While the main European ports – he says Blackbird – have been included by the respective governments in the NIS (Network and Information Security) directive, our competent department does not move and the Port System Authorities, which would immediately need to have a Cyber Manager, are forced to navigate by sight. We react to an offensive projected towards the future with advanced means and technology – concludes Merlo – with nineteenth-century times, will and methodologies, forgetting once more that the challenge of competitiveness, in ports as in the whole country, is played and won not only on material infrastructures, but also and, perhaps, especially on digitization “.