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01 March 2021The pandemic has seen "a surge in
disinformation campaigns and fake news
" and the "margins for intervention for hostile actors inclined to the combined use of multiple tools for manipulative and influence purposes" have widened.
This is what the
newly published
annual intelligence report
highlights
, which points out the "use of the combined use, by the main hostile state actors, of disinformation campaigns and cyber attacks, aimed at exploiting the emotional wave caused by the crisis health, in an attempt to turn the pandemic into a long-term strategic advantage ".
Cyber attacks against assets relevant to national security increased by 20% in the year of the covid.
in particular, "it emerged that state actors attempted to exploit the weaknesses connected to the pandemic wave to carry out sophisticated attacks aimed at exfiltrating
sensitive information on therapies and the state of research
", or rather from "hospitals, research centers and committed organizations in the development of vaccines and therapies against Covid-19 ", write our secret services in the annual report to Parliament.
"In general - it continues - the attacks" surveyed "by the Intelligence have revealed: an overall increase in episodes; the prevalence of public targets, especially
local administrations
; the persistent, greater recurrence of the hacktivist matrix and a decrease in cases of state matrix, in the face of an increase in shares with an unidentifiable matrix, which could underlie an increased ability to operate without a trace ".
The Report on the Information Security Policy 2020 of the Dis delivered to Parliament affirms that it has intensified the research and analysis activity in support of the political decision-maker, also "for the purpose of exercising special powers (so-called
Golden Power
) and 'implementation of the relevant legislation.
the information collected in the protection of strategic assets was primarily focused on the
healthcare industry
, including with regard to possible external interference to the detriment of emergency facilities, research centers and companies.
"priority High attention is also in sectors such as aerospace, defense and security, given the palatable know-how of our industry;
telecommunications, also due to the profound
technological
and organizational
transformations
connected with the introduction of 5G technology;
mechanics / mechatronics, automotive, biotech and made in Italy, able to enhance the research results;
logistics, in particular the port one, of absolute centrality due to the strong integration of the Italian economy in international trade flows ".
Intelligence monitoring did not fail to understand the dynamics of
the national financial system
," especially in relation to foreign projects also susceptible to repercussions on the balance of financing of the Italian public debt and on the policies for disbursing loans to our companies, such as those relating to national energy security, with regard to both the continuity of supplies and the prospects associated with the decarbonisation process of the economy Europe ".
Finally, the arrivals of
migrants
across the land border, as well as phantom landings from North Africa or from the Turkish-Hellenic shores," remain, in terms of security, the most critical means of entry, with respect to which
health risks
connected to the possible dispersion on the national territory
and virus-positive subjects added to the danger of terrorist infiltration ", underlines the Annual
Intelligence
Report
.
"On the latter front - reads the document - the results of the intense intelligence activity, conducted in conjunction with the Police Forces and in collaboration with the related foreign services, still rule out systematic recourse to illegal immigration channels for the movement of jihadists, reaffirming the existence of risks connected with the possibility that Islamist radicalization processes may mature in the centers of confluence / reception of migrants ".