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The crisis widens the field of cyber attacks against businesses

2020-08-02T18:58:17.535Z


DECRYPTION - The emergency switch to generalized teleworking has weakened the IT security of many companies. Ransom seekers take the opportunity to attack large structures as well as SMEs.


The insurer MMA, the construction group Rabot Dutilleul, Orange, France Télévisions, the industrialist X-Fab, the comparator MisterFly, Doctolib, CPM France ... Cyber ​​attacks made public have multiplied in recent weeks for companies, in France as well as pretty much everywhere in the world. In the last week of June alone, 28 French companies or communities that were victims of ransomware contacted the National Agency for Computer Systems Security (Anssi). Most have been victims of a ransomware attack, a malicious computer code that encrypts data and prevents the company from accessing the contents of its files in order to extort money from it.

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The phenomenon is not new, but the current upsurge is the consequence of a risk on which all cybersecurity companies had alerted in March: the great confinement and the wave of teleworking that resulted from it have greatly weakened the IT systems of companies,

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Source: lefigaro

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