Cyber ​​attacks foiled by the State Police at the Eurovision Song contest 2022

The collaboration and partnership between the State Police and Rai is consolidated to ensure safety during the conduct of international events.

The hackers tried to infiltrate the opening night and the final. The activation of an operations room dedicated to the Eurovision event in which technicians and police specialists from the CNAIPIC (National Anti-Crime Cybercrime Protection Center for Critical Infrastructures) of the Postal Police worked side by side 24 hours a day, allowed the neutralization of cyber attacks by the collective of killnet and its offshoot "Legion".

The info-preventive activity conducted by the CNAIPIC staff of the Postal Police on the basis of the analysis of the information obtained from the telegram channels of the pro-Russian group, also made it possible to derive important safety information, already shared with RAI for prevention of further critical events.

The CNAIPIC operations room carried out more than 1000 hours of monitoring with over 100 Postal Police specialists.

The entire network was monitored and billions of computer data also coming from the various social platforms were analyzed. During the activities, millions of analyzes of data relating to compromised IPs were carried out, which allowed to issue important security procedures.

In collaboration with ICT Rai and Eurovision TV, various computer attacks of a DDOS nature aimed at the network infrastructures during voting operations and singing performances were mitigated. From the analysis of the evidence, the CNAIPIC of the Postal Police identified numerous "PC-Zombies" used for the cyber attack.

Further analyzes and insights outlined the geographic mapping of attacks from abroad.

Cyber ​​attacks foiled by the State Police at the Eurovision Song contest 2022