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CERT-FR's advisory follows last month's disclosure of a zero-day flaw Apple said was used in "sophisticated" attacks against targeted individuals.
While no sensitive financial data like credit card information was compromised, the threat actors were able to get away with names, email addresses, phone numbers, and more.
A British national arrested earlier this year in France was charged by the US Department of Justice in connection with a string of major cyberattacks.
Until September 2024, the encrypted messaging service acceded to 14 requests for user data from the US; that number jumped to 900 after its CEO was detained by French authorities in August.
In the latest attack against ISPs, second-largest French provider Free fell victim to unknown cyberattackers who attempted to sell the compromised data it stole from the company on an underground cybercrime forum.
Russian hacktivists claim DDoS attacks against basic tourist websites. Is it real, or just smoke and mirrors?
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The notorious cyber espionage group has been harrying French interests for years, and isn't flagging now as the Paris Olympics approach.
By offering to buy Atos's big data and cybersecurity operations. Paris is trying to make sure key technologies do not fall under foreign control.
Viamedis and Almerys, two payment processors widely used by French health insurers, were victims of cyberattackers who struck five days apart.
France, the UK, the US, and others will work on a framework for the responsible use of tools like NSO Group's Pegasus, and Shadowserver Foundation gains £1 million investment.
The deal is expected to give the French vendor a larger presence in the application and API security markets, as well as in North America.
The NullMixer loader has compromised thousands of endpoints in the US, France, and Italy, stealing data and selling it to Dark Web data dealers, all without setting off alarm bells.
The January attack was in retaliation for the satirical French magazine's decision to launch a cartoon contest to lampoon Iran's Supreme Leader.
Patients transferred and operations canceled following a recent network breach at a hospital in the outskirts of Paris.
A do-it-yourself machine-learning system helped a French bank detect three types of exfiltration attacks missed by current rules-based systems, attendees will learn at Black Hat Europe.
Center Hospitalier Sud Francilien (CHSF), a hospital outside of Paris, has redirected incoming patients to other medical facilities in the wake of a ransomware attack that began on Aug. 21.
A threat group combines the use of steganography, open source tools, and Python scripts to target organizations in France.