La Poste Mobile, the CCR group and the Indre-et-Loire department have one thing in common. Since June, these three entities have been victims of cyberattacks.
The nature of the crimes perpetrated is diverse: fraudulent emails, deletion of files or general blocking of the server or access to company backups. A phenomenon that, like the resurgence of robberies in summer, will become more acute thanks to the summer holidays, reports Europe 1.
lack of vigilance
In question, the altered attention paid to cybersecurity procedures during this period is more conducive to relaxation than mistrust. Computer department on vacation, surveillance of employees dulled by summer torpor: hackers find an environment more conducive to perpetrating their crimes there than during the rest of the year.
In a context of health crisis and intensification of teleworking, more than one in two French companies declares to have suffered between one and three successful cyberattacks in 2021, reports the 7th edition of the annual Cesin barometer. A threat also revived, in 2022, by the Russian-led war in Ukraine.
SMEs are the most vulnerable
These acts are not exempt from economic consequences. As a consequence of these attacks, six out of ten companies declare that they have suffered an impact on their activity, the main consequences being interruptions in production (21%), compromise of information (14%) or unavailability of the company’s website for a period of time. a significant period. period, details the Cesin.
Attacks that especially affect SMEs, less favored in cybersecurity than large groups.
Source: BFM TV
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