The Thales group confirmed that it was again the target of an attack on October 31. The Lockbit 3.0 group allegedly stole information from him. Nobody knows the content of the data in their possession or the amount of the ransom demanded.
Lockbit 3.0 hackers have hit Thales again. there is no question of ransomware this time, although the criminals are demanding a ransom. Rather than the Ministry of Justice, hit in February 2022, it is still the French flagship of the arms industry that the Russian group has attacked. Cybercriminals stole data from electronics group and demand a ransom against the non-disclosure of the latter. The Thales group confirms having been the victim of an intrusion and theft. He opened an internal investigation and declared his situation to the National Information Systems Security Agency. At the latest news, no complaint would have been to the police.
Lockbit 3.0 reportedly led a cyberattack on the Thales group on October 31. The hackers say they will publish all the data available to them as early as November 7 if Thales does not meet their demand. The latter, for his part, claims to have received no ransom demand. At this point, therefore, the situation seems blocked: Thales recognizes an intrusion, Lockbit 3.0 recognizes an attack, but no proof of their crime is visible for the moment, and no concrete request would have been made. Let’s bet that Thales probably did not, for security reasons, reveal all the underside of this extortion attempt.
Thales confirms having been attacked but claims not to have received a ransom demand
The Lockbit 3.0 group made itself infamous in the eyes of the general French public by attacking the Ministry of Justice in February 2022, then the South Francilien Hospital Center of Corbeil-Essonne in August of the same year. In defiance of human life, the pirates had paralyzed the establishment and demanded 10 million euros to reverse the effects of their misdeed. According to a study published in 2021, these cyberattacks drastically increase the mortality rate in the hospitals targeted.
Remember that the group of hackers is itself neither safe from blackmail, nor even infallible, since the source code of its own ransomware, Lockbit, was found for free download on Github.