Spring 2025 will be remembered as a turning point in our country’s cyber chronicle. As bulletins and technical releases follow one another, one fact emerges glaringly: AKIRA has entered the Italian scene heavily. And it has done so without knocking on the door. In the report we publish today, the result of the joint work of our community and the DarkLab subgroup, which specializes in Cyber Threat Intelligence. Analysis with a technical but operational slant on the new offensive campaign of AKIRA, the ransomware-as-a-service that has made its bones abroad and now plays at home hitting large and medium-sized companies all along