“The AP agency, citing prosecutors, writes that a pro-Russian hacker group has claimed responsibility for a large-scale cyberattack that halted the delivery of parcels by France’s national postal service a few days before Christmas.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Illustrative photo: Getty Images Source: “European truth” with reference to AP
Details: Paris prosecutors said that after a cybercrime group known as Noname057 claimed, France’s DGSI intelligence service took over hacker attack investigation.
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The group is accused of other cyberattacks in Europe, including during a NATO summit in the Netherlands and on French government websites.
La Poste said that the central computer systems of the French national postal service La Poste were taken down on Monday by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
Postal workers could not track the delivery of parcels, and online payments at the company’s banking division were also disrupted. It was a major blow for La Poste, which delivered 2.6 billion parcels last year and has more than 200,000 employees, during the busiest season of the year.
The incident comes just a week after the French government was hit by a cyberattack that interrupted the work Ministry of Internal Affairs. This incident led to the theft of confidential police data and resulted in the arrest of the suspected hacker.
In November, on the eve of local and regional elections in Denmark, the websites of several Danish political parties suffered cyber attacks, for which they claimed responsibility pro-Russian hackers.