It said the hackers had taken advantage of a vulnerability in monitoring software sold by French group Centreon, which lists blue-chip French companies as clients, such as power group EDF, defence group Thales, or oil and gas giant Total.
The French ministry of justice and city authorities such as Bordeaux are also named as Centreon customers on the group's website.
"This campaign mostly affected information technology providers, especially web hosting providers," said the French National Agency for the Security of Information Systems (ANSSI) in a report.
Quite a lot has been going on:
Hackers who took down network now release info about residents, Chatham County officials say |
PITTSBORO, N.C. (WNCN) – After Chatham County had nearly its entire computer network damaged by hackers months ago, the perpetrators have now released data about people in the county, officials revealed Monday.
For days after the attack, officials said that crews "continue working to restore the affected systems."
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A week ago, the hackers “released certain data acquired … from the county's servers,” officials said Monday.
SolarWinds: How Russian spies hacked the Justice, State, Treasury, Energy and
President Biden inherited a lot of intractable problems, but perhaps none is as disruptive as the cyber war between the United States and Russia simmering largely under the radar. Last March, with the coronavirus spreading uncontrollably across the United States, Russian cyber soldiers released their own contagion by sabotaging a tiny piece of computer code buried in a popular piece of software called "SolarWinds.
Brad Smith: I think from a software engineering perspective, it's probably fair to say that this is the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen.
Microsoft: 1000+ Hackers Worked on SolarWinds Campaign - Infosecurity Magazine
The Russian state-backed operatives responsible for the SolarWinds attack may have numbered more than 1000, Microsoft president Brad Smith has claimed.
Speaking to the CBS 60 Minutes program over the weekend, Smith argued that the campaign, which targeted multiple US government departments and private cybersecurity companies, was “the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen.”
Only around 4000 of the millions of lines of code in the SolarWinds Orion update were rewritten to help the attackers achieve their ends, but this took a tremendous amount of manpower, he added.
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Cyberpunk and Witcher hackers don't seem to be bluffing with $1M source code auction - The Verge
The hackers who targeted video game developer CD Projekt Red (CDPR) with a ransomware attack have auctioned off the stolen source code they acquired for a payday of potentially millions of dollars.
The breach, which CDPR first disclosed yesterday after learning of it on Monday of this week, involved critical game code related to high-profile releases like The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077. CDPR said at the time that it had no intention of meeting the hackers' demands, even if that meant stolen material from the hack began circulating online.
Did Cyberpunk 2077's Hacked Source Code Actually Sell For $7 Million?
CDPR is still dealing with the fallout of a massive hack that pilfered their source code for Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher 3 and Gwent, as well as exposed employee information.
Right away, CDPR made it clear that they would not be paying any ransom demands for the hacked materials, and sure enough, they found their way to an online darkweb auction this past week.
But the auction was closed before its 48 hour period was up, with the sellers saying "An offer was received outside the forum that satisfied us," presumably at least that $7 million.
Kremlin Calls French Allegations Of Hacking Campaign 'Absurd'
The assertion by the French government's cybersecurity watchdog, made in a report released February 15, comes amid growing international concerns about cybercrime and espionage allegedly orchestrated by Russian intelligence agencies.
The U.S. government is grappling with its largest hack in history, a hack it has blamed on Russian security forces.
The French National Agency for the Security of Information Systems said the hackers had taken advantage of a vulnerability in monitoring software sold by the Paris-based company Centreon.
Defunct 3DS Game Swapnote Gets Belated Update, Allegedly To Stop Hackers
The Nintendo 3DS application Swapnote has had a muddy history, yet despite its online functionality still being disabled, it received a remastered update in December. Two months later, the reasoning for this mysterious update might have been discovered.
Swapnote was a 3DS app in which players drew pictures on letters and sent them to their friends. Players used to be able to send them to users on their friends list online, but nowadays it can only be done wirelessly through StreetPass. In 2013, the online functionality of Swapnote shut down as a response to some people in Japan sharing inappropriate imagery with minors.
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France uncovers cybersecurity breaches linked to Russian hackers https://t.co/FYbtG6Fln0 https://t.co/b6H0qZqmsw FRANCE24 (from Paris, France) Tue Feb 16 07:15:04 +0000 2021
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