The Italian government has announced the creation of new procedures to identify hacker threats in all sectors after a meeting on false bomb threats in schools and flights, and cyberattacks to supermarket cooling systems.
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12/11/2026
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Lusa
O italian government announced today that procedures will be created to identify hacker threats in all sectors, after a meeting on false bomb threats in schools and flights, and cyberattacks to supermarket refrigeration systems.
After today’s meeting of the technical committee of the CISR (Interministerial Commission for the Security of the Republic), work continues from Friday morning with a “small technical working group, responsible for defining a structure of procedures and tools for short, medium and long-term intervention,” the Chigi Palace (Government Headquarters) indicated in a statement.
“ These measures will cover not only schools but also other potential targets. For each sector, the competent authorities of the Central Government will identify the main indicators necessary to quickly distinguish the unfounded threats, while defining specific criteria, procedures and chain of command”, specified the same information note.
Today, false bomb threats were sent by e-mail to 3,788 Italian schools, but only 77 were evacuated, needed the Italian Government in the press release.
“ According to preliminary data, 3,778 schools today received threats by ‘e-mail’. There were 77 evacuations and, in 36 of these schools, educational activities were resumed in the morning,” said the note of the Chigi Palace, released after the technical level meeting of the CIRS, which was attended by the undersecretary of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Alfredo Mantovano, and the Interior Ministers, Matteo Piantedosi, and Education, Giuseppe Valditara.
On Wednesday, after more than 6,000 schools received by the same route bomb threats, several hundred were evacuated by the police to carry out searches for explosives, which were not found in any of them.
“ The significant decline in the number of evacuations confirms that the guidelines provided by the Government this morning to the mayors and directors of schools, after the events of yesterday (Wednesday) proved effective”, highlighted in the note of the Italian executive.
The Prime Minister’s office, Giorgia Meloni, added that the call of the Commission for Security of the Republic at technical level aims to “avoid that unfounded threats interrupt essential services” and “ensure the safety of students, teachers, school officials and families — and, more broadly, the entire national community”.
In accordance with the action plan defined during the meeting, the Minister of the Interior will provide operational guidance to local authorities to ensure continuity and security in the provision of public services.