French tech large Atos, which secures communications for the nation’s army and secret providers, has denied claims made by the House Bears ransomware gang that they compromised one in all its databases.
Atos, which has roughly 82,000 staff and an annual income of round €10 billion, describes itself as Europe’s main cybersecurity, cloud, and high-performance computing firm.
The corporate is listed on the Euronext Paris inventory trade and has over 1,200 purchasers from 70 international locations. In November, the French State supplied to accumulate its Superior Computing unit for an enterprise worth of €500 million and as much as €625 million, together with earn-outs.
In the present day’s assertion comes after the House Bears cybercrime group claimed on December twenty eighth that it breached Atos’ community and stole an organization database, which shall be revealed on its darkish internet leak website subsequent Wednesday.
House Bears is a comparatively new operation that emerged in April 2024. The menace actors use double extortion ways, stealing delicate knowledge from victims to strain them into paying a ransom and threatening to leak the stolen info on-line in the event that they refuse to pay.
Since April fifth, they’ve added 45 victims from everywhere in the world and varied business sectors (together with healthcare, expertise, automotive, telecommunications, aerospace, and aviation) to their leak weblog to coerce them into paying ransom calls for.
On December twenty ninth, Atos mentioned that preliminary evaluation confirmed “no proof of any compromise or ransomware affecting any Atos/Eviden techniques in any nation” and that the corporate had acquired no ransom demand.
When BleepingComputer requested for extra particulars about House Bears’ claims, a spokesperson mentioned updates can be revealed within the Atos newsroom. In the present day, the spokesperson instructed BleepingComputer that the ransomware group’s claims of “compromising the Atos group” are unfounded.
In a new assertion issued on Friday, the corporate added that “no infrastructure managed by Atos was breached, no supply code accessed, and no Atos IP or Atos proprietary knowledge uncovered.”
Atos mentioned that the House Bears menace actors as an alternative breached unconnected “exterior third-party infrastructure,” which, though saved knowledge mentioning the corporate’s identify, was not managed or secured by Atos.
“Atos has a worldwide community of greater than 6,500 specialised specialists and 17 new-generation safety operations facilities (SOCs) working 24/7 to make sure the safety of the Group and its clients,” the corporate added right this moment.