French police reckon financial system targeted during Summer Games
Nearly four weeks after the cyberattack on dozens of French national museums during the Olympic Games, the Brain Cipher ransomware group claims responsibility for the incident and says 300 GB of data will be leaked later today.
Brain Cipher's post to its leak blog this week revealed nothing about the nature of the data it allegedly stole, only saying it amounted to 300 GB. The post includes a countdown timer, indicating that RMN-GP's data may be leaked at 2000 .contacted the crooks for additional details about their alleged attack, but they did not respond in time for publication.
The last time Le Grand Palais, which hosted Olympic events such as fencing and taekwondo, addressed the matter, it said there was no operational impact, suggesting that no systems were encrypted.there was no evidence to suggest that data had been exfiltrated, but the national cybersecurity and data protection agencies in France, ANSSI and CNIL, were made aware of the incident.
However, SentinelOne and SOCRadar both said in their respective rundowns of Brain Cipher that its payload appears to feature more advanced code obfuscation techniques than the leaked LockBit builder, making analysis of how it works more difficult.SOCRadar."It hides threads from debuggers and executes in a suspended mode to avoid detection. Additionally, it enables debug and security privileges, potentially allowing it to bypass security measures.
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