War in Ukraine, alarm in Italy for Russian antivirus: risk of cyber attacks

In addition to the war in Ukrainethere is a invisible conflict that is fought on Informatic Systems. The alarm is raised by several parties, considering that Italy is among the subjects that could suffer cyber attacks by the Russia

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He talked about it in an interview with Corriere della Serathe former chief of police and civil defense Franco Gabrielli, now undersecretary to the presidency of the Council with responsibility for national security. “NATO – he underlines – has indicated cybernetics as a fifth sector of possible conflict that is added to the four classics: sky, earth, sea and space”

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Regarding the risks of cyber attacks to systems Italian security or of the public administrationGabrielli explains: “There were already signs of crisis before the war beganand since mid-January the National Cyber ​​Security Agency through the Csirt (Computer security incident response team) has played an effective role of coordination for all sensitive administrations and the operators of essential services with specific communications and alerts on possible critical issues ”

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Also bearing in mind, Gabrielli observes, that in Italy “we discount the structural limits of a public server system inadequateand that in this area too we must free ourselves from one dependence on Russian technology”

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Gabrielli refers to “antivirus systems produced by the Russians and used by our public administrations that we are verifying and planning to dispose of, to prevent it from protection tool they can become attack tool”

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The alarm also comes from Copasir. “Russia has become the stronger power in cyber warfare. Uses hacker for attacks that can paralyze the economic system of a country. It is necessary to accelerate the construction of the National Cybersecurity Agency, implement the security perimeter, do the national cloud for the data of the Public Administration “, explained the president of Copasir Adolfo Urso

During a hearing, the director of the National Cybersecurity Agency, Roberto Baldoni, illustrated the use in the technological panorama of our country of products, mainly software, made by Russian companies and any critical elements

Among the most used software of Russian origin in the world there is Kaspersky antivirus, a company in the top five of global manufacturers. It has been adopted since approx 2,700 Italian public administrationsreports the Courier serviceincluding ministries, municipalities, law enforcement agencies, services

The company was founded in Moscow in 1997 from Eugene Kaspersky, a mathematician who graduated in 1987 from the Institute of Cryptography, Telecommunications and Computer Science. The faculty is reputed to be linked to the KGB, who from there recruited the cryptography experts

Kaspersky has always denied to have links with the Russian secret services. But in 2017 the United States, at the direction of the US Federal National Security Agency, they have use prohibited of the solutions of his company in the national territory

In changed international contextKaspersky antivirus could represent a risk for Italian public administrations, since it could pass without detecting them Russian malware that could take the possession of the devices copying or blocking i sensitive dataexplains Courier service

For this the war is pushing the governments of the European Union to accelerate on a common ‘cyber shield’a series of measures to protect European computer networks, as reported by the European Commissioner for the Internal MarketThierry Breton

The system will be based on a European network Of security operations centers and automated lookouts that will constantly scan computer networks to detect possible attacks. There will also be a solidarity principle between states in case of attack and the updating of the European regulatory framework