- Orange warns customers of a current cyber attack
- The attack forced him to isolate parts of his network
- This isolation could cause disturbances, he warned
Orange Group, one of the main telecommunications operators in the world, warned against a cyber attack that has disrupted some of its services.
In a press release, the French telecommunications giant said on July 25, he detected a cyber attack on one of his information systems. Let us move on to the attenuation of the threat, the company was forced to “isolate” the potentially affected services, which disturbed various management services and platforms.
The two commercial customers, as well as “some” consumption services, mainly located in France, could undergo temporary service disturbances or be completely offline for certain users, said Orange. “Our dedicated teams are actively engaged in information and assistance to concerned customers.”
Salt typhoon
The company said it had identified and is currently implementing solutions that will gradually restore the affected services. At the time of the press, most services should already be operational.
Although there was no discussion on threat actors, the way they broke out or what their motivations were, Orange said that there was no evidence suggesting an exfiltration or alteration of the data. However, he has always filed an official complaint with regulators and filed opinions to the competent authorities.
“For obvious security reasons, Orange will not make other comments,” concluded Orange.
As a critical infrastructure, telecommunications organizations are constantly the reticle of different hacking groups and cybercriminals sponsored by the state.
Salt Typhoon, a Chinese group sponsored by the state and part of the widest collective “typhoon” of pirates, targets telecommunications for some time, hitting some of the largest and most popular brands in the world.
The objective is to remain hidden inside the network, in the event that tensions between China and the United States above Taiwan are transformed into a war in its own right. In this case, groups are responsible for disrupting services, listening to vital communications and exfiltrating sensitive information.
