15 million French citizens affected by massive data breach following cyberattack on medical software

A massive data breach concerning the data of 15 million people in France has been revealed after a cyberattack targeted 1,500 doctors using medical software. The administrative data of around 15 million French citizens, along with notes written by their Read More …

Paris prosecutor’s cybercrime unit searches X office

French police raided the offices of Elon Musk’s social media network X on Tuesday and prosecutors ordered the tech billionaire to face questions in April in a widening investigation, amid growing scrutiny of the platform by authorities across Europe. France’s Read More …

Paris releases Russian athlete accused by Washington of hacking attempts

Authorities in France have released a Russian national accused by the United States of participating in hacking attacks on companies for ransom in cryptocurrency. The man has been exchanged for a French citizen held in Russian custody, instead of being Read More …

France: Ten people found guilty of cyberbullying Brigitte Macron

A Paris court has found ten people guilty of cyberbullying France’s first lady Brigitte Macron. All defendants were handed a variety of sentences, ranging from cyberbullying awareness training to eight-month suspended prison terms. The French court pointed to “particularly degrading, Read More …

France’s postal and banking services disrupted by suspected DDoS attack

France’s national postal and banking services were knocked offline by a suspected distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Monday, according to an announcement by La Poste. The postal service called the attack “a major network incident” that was disrupting “all of Read More …

French government hit by cyberattack

The French Interior Ministry has confirmed recently suffering a cyberattack, but the consequences are still being determined. The French Minister of Interior said the attack took place at night, between December 11 and December 12. Email servers were compromised, allowing Read More …

International takedown of cryptocurrency fraud network laundering over EUR 700 million

The final actions in a sweeping international operation have successfully dismantled a large-scale cryptocurrency fraud and money laundering network that had laundered over EUR 700 million. Coordinated across multiple jurisdictions, these actions, carried out last month and earlier this week, Read More …

Shai Hulud 2.0, now with a wiper flavor

In September, a new breed of malware distributed via compromised Node Package Manager (npm) packages made headlines. It was dubbed “Shai-Hulud”, and Kaspersky published an in-depth analysis of it in another post. Recently, a new version was discovered. Shai Hulud Read More …

Europol: End of the game for cybercrime infrastructure: 1025 servers taken down

Between 10 and 13 November 2025, the latest phase of Operation Endgame was coordinated from Europol’s headquarters in The Hague. The actions targeted one of the biggest infostealers Rhadamanthys, the Remote Access Trojan VenomRAT, and the botnet Elysium, all of Read More …

Louvre used ‘Louvre’ as password for its video surveillance system

At the time of the brazen heist of $102 million in jewels from the Louvre last month, the password to the world-famous museum’s video surveillance system was simply “Louvre,” according to a museum employee with knowledge of the system. The Read More …