the “pirates” behind the cyber attack on ENAC Toulouse “pirates” in turn by the FBI
The Hive ransomware gang is busted. This was announced by the FBI on January 26, 2023, as part of a joint international operation to fight ransomware. Ruche claimed 58 lives in France, including the National School of Civil Aviation in Toulouse in March 2022.
The announcement was made Thursday, January 26, 2023, during a press conference, by the director of the FBI himself. “we hacked (hacked) the Pirates (hackers)“it’s satisfied merrick Garland. Within the framework of international cooperation, involving 13 countries according to EuropolUS government hackers infiltrated the gang and sabotaged their attacks for over six months.
The operation made it possible to help more than 300 victims to cross the world, by providing them with the keys necessary for decryption. The servers used by hackers and located in the United States, The bone Angeles, were also seized.
Since June 2021, more than 1,500 companies from more than 80 countries around the world have been victims of the associates of Hive and lost nearly €100 million in ransom payments. L’National School of Civil Aviation of Toulouse belongs to the 58 French cases affected by these cyberattacks.
In March 2022, ENAC was the target of this ransomware. The amount requested at the time was not disclosed. The school, in order not to accelerate the spread of the virus, claimed not to have opened the extortion message. Classes had to be suspended as the use of planes from the various external sites of the school, all the connected objects of the school were infected, such as the automatic locks and the printers of the establishment had to be reformatted one by one.
Many gangs have been multiplying this type of scam for several months. On September 13, 2022, a cyberattack paralyzed the six establishments of the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, in exchange for a ransom.
To read: a clinic of the Ramsay group, near Toulouse, victim of a cyberattack
Thursday, January 26, it’s the group’s turn Ramsay to be the victim of an “attempted external computer intrusion”. In fact, ransomware blocked part of his computer systems. Near Toulouse (Upper Garonne)the Union clinic was affected by this cyberattack. In degraded mode, treatments and prescriptions are carried out in paper format. 4 days later, the problem was still not solved.