The cyber attack against the Corbeil-Esonnes hospital is them. The piracy of Thalès, a company specialized in defense and aerospace as well. In a few years, the Russian computer pirates group Lockbit became known for its large -scale misdeeds.
But this has just lost one of its members with the arrest, in mid -July 2025, of a man of Ukrainian origin by the gendarmes of the National Cybernetic Unit (UNC), announced the Office of the Prosecutor of Paris to Tech & CO, confirming information from Franceinfo.
The age of thirty, this alleged hacker would have been active in several dozen cyber attacks.
Several hundred attacks in France in 2024
Lockbit is not just a group of computer pirates, it is mainly a ransomiciel, which blocks a computer or server before claiming money to sell stolen data or that can be recovered. There are more than 200 victims in France alone in 2024.
In X, the delegated minister responsible for artificial and digital intelligence, Clara Chappaz, congratulated the gendarmes at the origin of this arrest: “France tracks their attackers everywhere.”
Lockbit had already seen its weakened control after a wave of arrests made at the end of 2024 by 11 countries, including France, Germany and the United States. 34 IT servers and 200 cryptocurrencies froze, in addition to arrests. Since then, the attacks have fallen significantly, confirms the national cyber unity.
The fact is that the environment of the cyber crime retains a massive fingerprint in the web and computer infrastructure. In 2024, the number of cyber attacks increased by 15%, according to the National Information Systems Agency (ANSSI). Just during the period of the Paris Olympic Games, the Government has counted 548 “cybersecurity events” but with the “low” impact given the precautions taken up.
Source: BFM TV
