Paris — A pro-Russian hacking group claimed responsibility for the attack Major cyber attack Prosecutors said Wednesday that the company stopped delivering packages by France’s national postal service just days before Christmas.
Following the allegation by the cybercrime group known as Noname057, the French intelligence agency DGSI took over the investigation into the hacking attack, the Paris prosecutor’s office said in a statement to The Associated Press.
The group has been accused of other cyberattacks in Europe, including around a NATO summit in the Netherlands and French government websites. The goal of A A major European police operation Earlier this year.
Central computer systems at French national postal service La Poste went offline on Monday in a distributed cyberattack on the service, or DDoS, that had not been fully resolved as of Wednesday morning, the company said.
Postal workers were unable to track package deliveries, and online payments at the company’s banking arm were disrupted. This was a major blow for La Poste, which delivered 2.6 billion parcels last year and employs more than 200,000 people, during its busiest season of the year.
France and other European allies Ukraine They claim that Russia is waging a “hybrid war” campaign to sow division in Western societies and undermine its support for Ukraine. The AP has tracked more than 145 Accidents Including sabotage, assassinations, cyber attacks, disinformation and other increasingly hostile actions Draining police resources