Cyber Attack Disrupts COVID-19 Payouts- Hackers Take Down Italian Social Security Site

The Italian website responsible taking applications for COVID-19 emergency payouts has been taken ... [+] down by hackers

Are there no depths that cruel hackers and cybercriminals will not plumb during the COVID-19 pandemic when everyone else is pulling together? The answer, if a cyberattack on the social security coronavirus benefits application website over the last few days is anything to go by, is no. A big, fat, shameful no.

We've already seen supposed "elite hackers" attacking the World Health Organization, cyber criminals hitting a COVID-19 vaccine testing facility with ransomware and healthcare workers being targeted with Windows malware using coronavirus information as the lure. Now, it has been reported, hackers have forced the Italian social security website to shut down for a period, as the most vulnerable in society started their claims for a €600 ($655) crisis payout.

We had to close the website says welfare agency head

The general director of Italian welfare agency IN ..

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