Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

France’s government chat app Tchap was breached after a single account was compromised, exposing messages and data from public channels. Tchap, the encrypted messaging platform developed by the French government for its civil servants and made mandatory last year, was breached on June 7. ANSSI, France’s cybersecurity agency, detected the intrusion. The vector was straightforward: […]

Midnight Blizzard Compromised Government Staff Emails for the Attack, French ANSSI SaidA Russian foreign intelligence hacking group attempted to target the French Foreign Ministry using compromised emails of government staffers, the French cyber agency said. It said the group poses a "national security concern" to French and European diplomatic interests.

Zut alors! Department for registering and helping unemployed people broken into A French government department - responsible for registering and assisting unemployed people - is the latest victim of a mega data breach that compromised the information of up to 43 million citizens.…

Researchers have exposed a new targeted email campaign aimed at French entities in the construction, real estate, and government sectors that leverages the Chocolatey Windows package manager to deliver a backdoor called Serpent on compromised systems