France: Russian state hackers targeted Centreon servers in years-long campaign

Image: Centreon. Article by Catalin Cimpanu for Zero Day.   ZDNet – February 15, 2021.

New ANSSI report exposes new Sandworm APT attacks targeting IT companies using Centreon servers.

France’s cyber-security agency said that a group of Russian military hackers, known as the Sandworm group, have been behind a three-years-long operation during which they breached the internal networks of several French entities running the Centreon IT monitoring software.

The attacks were detailed in a technical report released today by Agence Nationale de la Sécurité des Systèmes d’Information, also known as ANSSI, the country’s main cyber-security agency.

“This campaign mostly affected information technology providers, especially web hosting providers,” ANSSI officials said today. […]

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