The Vatican is facing computer network and website outages for the fourth day in a row due to a cyber attack. Also on Saturday, there were problems accessing the Holy See’s “vatican.va” website, with many pages unable to open and a “404 Not Found” message appearing when clicked.
Experts reported possible DDoS-like cyberattacks, where hackers bombard websites with tons of requests to bring the system to a standstill. The Vatican reported two days ago that the “abnormal entry attempts” did not come from a single country. Vatican IT personnel are working to determine the nature of the “anomaly”.
Ukraine blames Russia
The websites of the Vatican, including those of the Vatican Museums, were down for several hours on Wednesday due to a suspected cyber attack. Ukrainian ambassador to the Holy See, Andrei Yurasch, blamed Russian hackers for the attack. The alleged cyber-attack was likely in response to the pope’s latest important statements. The Vatican website is now accessible again.
In an interview published Monday, the pope said the “cruelest” in Russia’s offensive war against Ukraine may be those who are “not of Russian tradition, such as the Chechens, the Buryats and so on.” Russia was outraged by the Pope’s statements.
Source: Krone
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