Thalès Alenia Space, a major Franco-Italian firm in the aerospace, defense and security sectors, has announced that it has suffered a data theft.
LockBit 2.0 thieves are behind online information leak at low level of sensitivity “, again according to Thales.
Hackers obviously didn’t have much to eat
After claiming responsibility for an attack on Thalès Alenia Space on January 3, 2022, members of LockBit 2.0 finally released approximately 1,320 internal documents relating to the firm on Monday January 17. Specialized in ransomware, LockBit 2.0 does not seem to have succeeded in its aims, namely to obtain money from Thalès to avoid the publication of this data.
Taking the threat seriously, the Franco-Italian firm had communicated that it had not received a ransom demand, or even concrete proof of theft, and was investigating. Finally, for The Parisian, Thales specifies that the .zip files put online ” appear to have been copied from a code repository server […] external to the group’s main information systems “.
On this subject, the technical director of Deep Instinct, a firm specializing in the prevention of cyberattacks, Guillaume Maguet indicated that the hackers of LockBit 2.0 “ are considered serious in technique but not very credible in their information and with a big mouth “. Ouch, it stings. But, more broadly, ransomware is up 255% in 2020, a threat that obviously needs to be taken seriously.
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Sources: The Parisian
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