Cyber attacks are accelerating and the preventive alerts from the National Cybersecurity Agency have doubled. In the first six months of this year, the Acn sent 43,675 preventive alerts to public and private entities (+20,000 compared to the first half of 2025), about 250 every day.
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At the same time, the Agency also draws attention to other threats such as fake job interviews on LinkedIn to infiltrate companies through software developers. The human factor, in fact, remains the Achilles’ heel of security: almost two-thirds of breaches result from user errors among phishing campaigns and poor credential management. The Acn has thus spotlighted a insidious attack campaign aimed at exploiting fake recruitment processes to trick victims into installing malware on their computers without realizing it.
From January to June about 250 preventive alerts per day
The numbers give an idea of the scale of the problem. The total preventive alerts from January to June 2026, about 250 every day, is almost double last year (+20,532): the increase in vulnerabilities has led to a constant and growing operational multiplication of Acn’s monitoring.
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Quacivi: “support to public administrations and companies based on a participatory regulatory model”
“We intend to continue and strengthen our support to public administrations and companies in implementing the obligations provided by cyber regulations – emphasizes Director General Andrea Quacivi – with a participatory regulatory model and cooperative adaptation. With this shared vision, we must and can guarantee the digital protection of the Country System.”
Agency’s capacity enhanced
Monitoring and prevention increase in the face of multiplying digital threats. With the notification obligations in force thanks to the Nis2 directive (EU 2022/2555), the National Cybersecurity Agency’s capacity to observe, detect, and manage cyber events has been enhanced. Csirt Italia managed 2,171 cyber events in the first half of 2026 (+47%) but according to Acn experts, the increase is mainly due to the expansion of the regulatory observation perimeter and not an escalation of the threat.
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