PARIS: France’s national cybersecurity agency on Monday said it had discovered a hack of several organizations that bore similarities to other attacks by a group linked to Russian intelligence.

It bared that the hackers had taken advantage of a vulnerability in monitoring software sold by French group Centreon, which lists blue-chip French companies as clients, such as power group EDF, defense group Thales, or oil and gas giant Total.

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