The official website of the Vatican was down on Wednesday. The information was confirmed by the Holy See, which added that “technical investigations are ongoing due to an anomalous number of attempts to access the site,” spokesman Matteo Bruni said.
Ukrainian Ambassador to the Vatican Andriy Yurash reacted to the cyber attack on his Twitter account.winter writing that “this is a response to the statements of the Pope. Many pages of the Roman Curia have become inaccessible.”
The apparent attack came a day after Pope Francis condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Pope Francis said in an interview published on Monday that some of the “most brutal” fighters in the Russian offensive in Ukraine “do not belong to Russian traditions” but belong to minorities such as “Chechens, Burats” (an ethnic group from Mongolia). ., referring to the indigenous peoples of these regions of Russia.
terrorists have reached the sites of the Vatican city-state today: many online pages of various structures of the Roman Curia have become inaccessible! hackers once again demonstrate the real face of politics, directly defined by the PACE as a terrorist: a response to the latest important statements @pontifex pic.twitter.com/mmQOfs2lxy
— Andrey Yurash (@AndriiYurash) November 30, 2022
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