Valéry Marchive reports (translation):
Ironically, when the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, announced, this Thursday, February 18 at noon, the allocation of one billion euros , as part of the recovery plan, to cybersecurity , Afnor was shutting down the services it exhibits on the Internet, starting with its website.
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Reached by telephone, on his initiative, a spokesperson for the association admitted that it was a “large-scale” cyberattack and that it led to the detonation of a ransomware: Ryuk. But no details, at this stage, neither on the extent of the quantified park nor on the chronology of the attack.
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