French IT monitoring company was targeted by hackers, cyber agency says

Hackers targeted firms using French company Centreon's monitoring software for years, says cybersecurity watchdog. —Bloomberg

Hackers have spent up to three years breaking into organisations by targeting monitoring software made by the French company Centreon, France's cybersecurity watchdog said on Monday.

The watchdog, known by its French acronym ANSSI, stopped short of identifying the hackers but said that they had a similar modus operandi as the Russian cyberespionage group often nicknamed "Sandworm."