Vatican websites have come under attack. In the early hours of yesterday afternoon, all the pages that have their servers in the Holy See disappeared from the Web. "Technical investigations are underway due to anomalous attempts to access the site," said the Vatican press office, which had previously spoken of an ordinary "maintenance" activity. However, the explanation seemed inconsistent since the work on the network was carried out in the early afternoon, when the web is super-consulted, and especially without a page of notice to users. No one officially announced the causes of yesterday's situation, but the methods of the dysfunction - first a slowdown in navigation and then the clustering of the various sites with the extension ".va" – made many experts speculate that it was the result of the work of Russian cyber-criminals, who in this period would also target other institutional sites in Europe.
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