French Cyber Security Agency Suffer Mocking Cyberattacks From Turk Hack Team

Turk Hack Team made headlines with their daring attack on the French National Cyber Security Agency (ANSSI). The threat actors announced their successful attack on the entity via its official Telegram page.

Moreover, the hackers may continue the assault as they announce their desire to continue attacking the cyber security agency’s infrastructure to either disable or disrupt operating flows.

As of the time of writing, the server of the agency and its website as well as other system operating services was down. The downtime may continue until the response team can counter or thwart the blatant intrusion.

Not The First Breach?

In 2021, the ANSSI suffered a cyber breach from several organizations that bore similarities to other attacks by a group linked to Russian intelligence.

Notably, the group of hackers took advantage of a vulnerability in the monitoring software sold by French group Centreon, which lists blue-chip French firms as clients, such as power group EDF, defense group Thales, or oil and gas giant Total.

Subsequently, the French National Agency for the Security of Information Systems (ANSSI) responded with a statement, ‘This campaign mostly affected information technology providers, especially web hosting providers.

ANSSI had discovered “a backdoor” on several Centreon servers that authorized the hacker’s access to its networks. Centreon later reported none of its customers were affected. However, this campaign bore several similarities with previous campaigns linked to the intrusion of the Russian-linked cyber actors  ‘Sandworm’.

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