(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 7 - Russian hackers on Tuesday cheered what they called the 'removal' of Italian cyber chief Roberto Baldoni, who resigned on Monday amid a wave of attacks that last year saw a surge of 169%.
    "Our series of attacks on the Italian internet infrastructure can rightly be considered successful: as a result, the head of the Italian National Agency for Information Security has been removed from his post", said the pro-Russian hacker group Noname057(16) on its Telegram channel.
    The group has been responsible for attacks in recent weeks on the sites of several Italian institutions and companies.
    The crew posted on its channel a photo of Baldoni, the director of the Italian cybersecurity agency who quit Monday, along with that of a bear.
    "Let's see", the ironic message continued, "how the new head of this Italian office will cope with cyber threats from the NoName057(16) team". (ANSA).