Vatican City – There are no certainties, but everything would point to an attack”ddos” in the network of Vatican, instead of normal maintenance of the various sites of Oltretevere, as minimized by the authorities of the Holy See. For a few hours, all of the websites of the various Curiae were down, making them unavailable to anyone at that time. In general, when major or extraordinary maintenance is being performed, a courtesy page is almost always used to indicate the temporary suspension to users. In this case, however, the Vatican sites appeared unusually inaccessible. Page not found. “Ddos” attacks usually involve the Russian hackers They are the ones slowing down the network and expecting a massive influx of incoming data, causing the network to become overloaded. When a network is overloaded, it shuts down automatically. These are simple attacks, but they require coordination. Russian hackers are famous for these types of attacks.
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By a strange coincidence, just yesterday in Russia, the words of Pope Francis, who in an interview described the Chechens and Buryats as cruel, were the focus of enormous controversy and severe criticism on television.
Hacker attacks of various kinds are not unknown to the Vatican website. It has even seen Islamic attacks in the past. Two years ago, however, a report by a US IT company caused controversy, revealing how the Chinese had managed to hack into the headquarters of a well-known Catholic study center in Hong Kong and subsequently retrieve the emails belonging to personalities of priests and Chinese bishops. According to the report, a fake condolence letter sent by Foreign Minister Cardinal Pietro Parolin on the death of a Chinese bishop was used in the hack.