Officials say they have foiled attempted cyberattacks on Italian embassies and Olympic hotels. Police are on high alert; navigating protests, crowd control, event security and viral attacks.
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, speaking in Washington on Wednesday, announced that his nation's security agencies had "foiled a series of cyberattacks" of "Russian origin."
Tajani said the attempted attacks targeted numerous "Foreign Ministry offices, starting with Washington, and also some Winter Olympics sites, including hotels in Cortina."
Past Olympic-related cyberattacks came in Paris in 2024, and Pyeongchang in 2018.
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