Be careful if you are a Crédit Agricole customer! For several hours this Wednesday, February 7, 2024, the bank has been the subject of a large-scale cyberattack, which put its platform out of service. You will have to be patient!

Be careful if you are a Crédit Agricole customer! For several hours this Wednesday, February 7, 2024, the bank has been the subject of a large-scale cyberattack, which put its platform out of service. You will have to be patient!

If you cannot access the Crédit Agricole website or application, this is normal! For several hours now, the banking platform has been completely out of service, following a major cyberattack. If the company mentions on “technical incident”, it would be, according to initial information, a DDoS attack – for Distributed Denial of Service, or “distributed denial of service” in French – carried out by the hacker collective Turk Hack Team. The same one that attacked La Poste’s servers a few days ago, shutting down several of its services such as package tracking, making appointments, access to the customer area and even the online postage. And it doesn’t seem to be stopping…

Crédit Agricole hacking: after La Poste, who will be next?

DDoS attacks aim to make a website, router, server, or network unavailable to users by overwhelming it with malicious traffic. To put it simply, hackers send a very large number of false requests to the target, which causes a sort of traffic jam, preventing legitimate Internet users from reaching their destination. It is this technique, classic but effective, which was used to put the sites of La Poste and, now, of Crédit Agricole out of use.

Complaints continue to pour in on social networks and on tools like DownDetector, where reports number in the hundreds. Crédit Agricole responded to dissatisfied Internet users: “A technical incident is currently in progress. We are sorry for the inconvenience caused and are doing everything we can to resolve the problem quickly. Thank you for your understanding.” HAS At the time of writing, wait times to access the website are particularly long, regularly causing the page to crash.

The Turk Hack Team group has already claimed responsibility for the attack, stating: “We will continue to target your critical and banking infrastructures”. The collective made itself known a year ago by achieving the feat of hacking the Telegram page of ANSSI, the French IT security agency. Since then, he has attacked the aerospace giant Lockheed Martin and managed to exploit a flaw in surveillance software from the French Centreon, which is none other than the service provider for Thales, Total and even EDF. In short, their effectiveness no longer needs to be proven. The motive behind these serial attacks is political and would follow the arms deliveries made by France to Armenia. Suffice it to say that we should soon hear about them again…