Saturday, October 12, 2019. The awakening is both early and brutal for Jérôme Lefébure, financial director and member of the management board of M6.
Journalists no longer have access to the internet, all screens are blocked.
The group has just suffered a violent ransomware cyberattack overnight.
This term refers to malicious computer programs with which hackers manage to cripple a company's information systems by encrypting data before demanding payment of a ransom.
“Obviously we couldn't face the situation on our own.
On the morning of October 12, we called on Anssi, a Forensic firm to initiate the analysis and the C3N to file a complaint, without forgetting to report the claim to the CNIL and to our insurer ”
, he recalls.
This type of attack has exploded since the beginning of the year.
The National Agency for the Security of Information Systems (Anssi) has already dealt with 104 attacks in eight months against companies
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