Italy's cybercrime police spent Thursday responding to an ongoing cyberattack targeting the website of the Foreign Ministry, known as the Farnesina. Italian news agencies reported in the evening that the attack was believed to have been carried out by the pro-Russian hacker group NoName057(16).
According to initial reports, the incident appears to have been a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, in which a website is flooded with fake requests to overwhelm its systems.
