World leader in technology and defense, Thales has just joined the list of victims of the dreaded hacker group Lockbit 3.0.
The Russian-speaking group Lockbit 3.0 has posted a message on the Dark Web indicating that it has successfully attacked the French giant Thales, threatening to disclose sensitive data belonging to it, and this, in the next few days. The communication is not reassuring, since it comes from the same group that was behind the cyberattack on the Corbeil-Essonnes hospital, still not recovered from the ransomware that hit it this summer.
Lockbit 3.0 promises to release data from Thales on November 7
With Cybermoi/s 2022 barely over, Thales must already manage a first major cyber crisis. While it says it is aware of the threats, the French group does not provide details on the rest, except that it has opened an internal investigation and informed ANSSI, and that it has no not complained yet.
As far as we know, the Russian Lockbit 3.0 hackers have not released any data, and they have not yet specified the nature of the information they may have been able to collect. But that obviously doesn’t mean they won’t take action.
Because cybercriminals have launched a running countdown until Monday, November 7 at 6:29 a.m. At this very precise time and on this day, Lockbit 3.0 promises to make available all the data at its disposal. And given the technological sector in which Thales operates, one can imagine the importance of the data that some could seize.
No ransom demanded
On the side of Thales, the threat is taken very seriously, at the highest point one could say, since Lockbit has already proven its dangerousness on several occasions in the past. In addition to the Corbeil-Essonnes hospital, La Poste Mobile and the department of Ardèche are among its latest French victims.
Thales is all the more worried that Lockbit 3.0 does not demand a ransom, and purely and simply threatens to disclose the data it has in its possession. The group even goes so far as to invite Thales customers to file a complaint against the French company, brandishing the grievance of the negligence of the rules of confidentiality. What place more than ever the company in the embarrassment.
The group based in La Défense is in any case not the only victim claimed by Lockbit 3.0 on October 31. Several other structures were reportedly hacked.
Source : RFI
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