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Food groups Jean Floc'h and Dalloyau victims of the powerful group of hackers Conti

2021-11-10T11:15:14.544Z


Cybercriminals claim to have exfiltrated internal data and demand ransom by waving threat of publication. A temptation


Despite several warning shots and arrests, cyberattacks continue to wreak havoc on the real economy.

Very active since the beginning of the year, the operators of the Conti ransomware added this weekend two French heavyweights in the food industry and gastronomy to their sinister hunting picture published on their Darknet blog.

The Parisian caterer and pastry chef Dalloyau and the Breton agri-food group Jean Floc'h have been victims for a few days of an extortion attempt by cybercriminals, who published a sample of the data they allegedly stole.

Objective: put pressure on the victims.

Ransomware or "ransomware" in English refers to malicious software that encrypts and therefore makes the data of a target completely unreadable.

Hackers first get into the system, often through a phishing campaign and theft of logins and passwords.

Once inside, they take care to extract and recover the most sensitive information and then activate their parasitic software which renders the victim's system inoperable.

They first attempt to sell the victim their data decryption key and if the company does not pay the claimed amount in cryptocurrency to recover it, the kidnappers then threaten to disclose the stolen information.

Documents as proof of theft

Conti operators claim to have private documents stolen from the Dalloyau group and have published 2% of their alleged loot as evidence.

A compressed file of 118 MB is thus downloadable.

Contacted by Le Parisien, the emblematic company of French gastronomy ensures that it has not received a ransom demand in exchange for the return of the files.

"We suffered a computer problem last week on a server, but it was indeed a computer bug and not a hack", specifies Marie-Charlotte Familiadès, the general manager of the group.

For the pigmeat producer Jean Floc'h, the ransomers have posted a publication of 3% of the files and since Sunday have been highlighting a compressed file of 273 MB. The Morbihan company has not responded to our numerous requests.

Cybercriminals have uploaded some of their alleged loot.

Heir to the Ryuk ransomware which targeted French hospitals, Conti is particularly active in Western Europe and North America.

It is especially formidable by its popularity and its simplicity of propagation.

"It is easy to rent by inexperienced hackers and uses the power of the computer to quickly encrypt essential files and documents," warns Adrien Merveille, cybersecurity consultant at Checkpoint.

According to the first ransomware barometer established by cybersecurity start-up Anozr Way, a French company is blackmailed into the precious data of its customers and suppliers… every three days.

Source: leparis

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