The daily "Paris-Normandie" targeted by a cyberattack
The daily "Paris-Normandie" targeted by a cyberattack
The newspaper has been unable to update its website since Wednesday and has seen its print editions disrupted by this attack.
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Posted November 19, 2020 at 4:54 p.m. - Updated November 19, 2020 at 5:36 p.m.
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The Paris-Normandy daily is the victim of a cyber attack which has prevented it from updating its website since Wednesday and has disrupted its paper editions, we learned, Thursday, November 19, from the daily.
“We can't update the website since 1pm yesterday , ” the newspaper tweeted Thursday morning. “Our company suffered, during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, a cyberattack which hit all of our computer systems. " As a result, the newspaper released on Thursday a single regional edition, instead of the usual three editions during confinement.
Ransom demand
When asked if this was a ransomware attack, the newspaper declined to comment further. But two journalists from the daily who both requested anonymity each confirmed that there had been a demand for ransom.
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Ransomware allows cybercriminals to encrypt their business files, successfully crippling all or part of their business. The hackers then demand a ransom to decrypt the files. More and more companies are falling victim to this scourge, but rarely the media. In France, M6 has already been hit by a ransomware attack that severely disrupted its activities for a few days in mid-October 2019.
Paris-Normandie was bought in June by the Belgian group Rossel. The only local daily in the former Haute-Normandie, it has around 41,000 copies. The newspaper broke a record on Monday with 1.1 million page views in twenty-four hours.
The newspaper has been unable to update its website since Wednesday and has seen its print editions disrupted by this attack.
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Posted November 19, 2020 at 4:54 p.m. - Updated November 19, 2020 at 5:36 p.m.
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The Paris-Normandy daily is the victim of a cyber attack which has prevented it from updating its website since Wednesday and has disrupted its paper editions, we learned, Thursday, November 19, from the daily.
“We can't update the website since 1pm yesterday , ” the newspaper tweeted Thursday morning. “Our company suffered, during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, a cyberattack which hit all of our computer systems. " As a result, the newspaper released on Thursday a single regional edition, instead of the usual three editions during confinement.
Ransom demand
When asked if this was a ransomware attack, the newspaper declined to comment further. But two journalists from the daily who both requested anonymity each confirmed that there had been a demand for ransom.
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Ransomware allows cybercriminals to encrypt their business files, successfully crippling all or part of their business. The hackers then demand a ransom to decrypt the files. More and more companies are falling victim to this scourge, but rarely the media. In France, M6 has already been hit by a ransomware attack that severely disrupted its activities for a few days in mid-October 2019.
Paris-Normandie was bought in June by the Belgian group Rossel. The only local daily in the former Haute-Normandie, it has around 41,000 copies. The newspaper broke a record on Monday with 1.1 million page views in twenty-four hours.
