(Reuters) — Hackers have spent as much as three years breaking into organizations by concentrating on monitoring software program made by the French firm Centreon, France’s cybersecurity watchdog stated on Monday.
The watchdog, identified by its French acronym ANSSI, stopped wanting figuring out the hackers however stated that they had the same modus operandi because the Russian cyberespionage group usually nicknamed “Sandworm.”
ANSSI, Centreon, and the Russian embassy in Paris didn’t instantly return messages looking for remark.
The concentrating on of Centreon, a Paris-based firm which makes a speciality of info expertise monitoring, additional highlights how enticing such corporations are to digital spies.
U.S. cybersecurity officers are nonetheless making an attempt to get their palms round an formidable espionage marketing campaign that hijacked IT monitoring software program made by the Austin, Texas-based agency SolarWinds. American officers, who’ve blamed Moscow for the hacking, have hinted that different corporations have additionally been hit in comparable methods.
Earlier this month Reuters reported that suspected Chinese language hackers additionally focused SolarWinds prospects, utilizing a unique and fewer critical bug to assist unfold it throughout their victims’ networks.
The preliminary vector for the marketing campaign of intrusions that focused Centreon software program was not identified, ANSSI stated in a 40-page report posted on its web site. It stated it had found intrusions courting again to late 2017 and stretching into 2020.
The watchdog didn’t establish the names or variety of victims concerned however stated they had been primarily IT companies corporations corresponding to web internet hosting suppliers.
Centreon’s web site says it has greater than 600 enterprise shoppers the world over, together with the French Ministry of Justice.
(Reporting by Raphael Satter; modifying by Grant McCool and Richard Chang)
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