About 6,300 schools in Italy were evacuated on Wednesday after receiving bomb warnings, the latest in a series of threats and cyberattacks around Europe, Reuters reported in a text published by Al-Monitor.

Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland said many of their schools received an email threat from abroad but it was classed as a hoax and did not disrupt classes. The email received in Italy was signed “Mikhail Andropov, leader of the Vilayat of Misoginistan,” according to a copy of the message seen by Reuters, and the same purported author claimed responsibility for email bomb threats sent on Friday to newsrooms in Ireland and Bulgaria. A copy of the message seen by Reuters also included a threat to target Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who said the bomb alerts posed no danger and that police and other public bodies were monitoring the situation. Iran’s foreign ministry rejected as “baseless and hostile” accusations that its Revolutionary Guards were behind the attacks, Reuters reported in a text republished by Internazionale; European officials suspect a Russian hybrid campaign, which Moscow denies.