OSINT Investigation: Cerberus and the INPS
On 1 April 2020, the Italian National Institute for Social Security (INPS) experienced an unexpected outage on its website, leaving many Italians distressed and confused. This is due to the fact that the Italian government has offered a rescue package of €600 to assist with those experiencing hardship during lockdown, during the coronavirus pandemic. However, with the website being offline those who need help are temporarily unable to get it. Suddenly, a tweet from the infamous Anonymous Italy (@Anon_ITA) led some to believe that the site was taken down due to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack from the activist group. Once the translation is made, however, it becomes clear that the site was taken down via the IT administrators' own means, not because of a DDoS attack, Anonymous Italy admits. As of 6 April 2020 the site was still down, DDay Italy then investigated the true meaning behind its outage and found that because the site was placed behind the Aka...
