Atos, IT provider for Winter Olympics, hacked months before Opening Ceremony cyberattack
Hackers armed with destructive malware appear to have compromised the main IT service provider for the Winter Olympic Games months before last week’s highly publicized cyberattack. Publicly available evidence analyzed by experts and reviewed by CyberScoop suggests that whoever deployed the Olympic Destroyer malware on Feb. 9 likely previously penetrated a series of computer systems in December belonging to Atos, a multinational information technology service provider that is hosting the cloud infrastructure for the Pyeongchang games. The evidence was recently posted to the VirusTotal repository, but information associated with the malware samples carries indications that the hackers were inside Atos systems since at least December. Some of the earliest samples were uploaded by unnamed VirusTotal users geographically located in France, where Atos is headquartered, and Romania, where some members of Atos’ security team work. On Feb. 9, the official Winter Olympics website went down for several hours, causing a disruption to ticket sales and downloads during the […]
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