Hackers no longer target companies that do greenwashing

A hacker in front of his screen.

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Not all cyber attacks targeting businesses are intended to make money for the hackers who trigger them.

Some ransomware created by hackers requires victims to pay in order to regain access to their digital data.

Others, however, have a more ethical goal: to denounce the hypocrisy of certain companies in matters of social or ecological responsibility, indicates a study published on September 18 in

.

The American authors cite among their examples the recent hacks targeting the World Health Organization (WHO).

The operation was launched because of its "inaction [or supposed inaction] in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic", explain researchers at the University of Delaware.

They studied the link between the risk of being targeted by a computer attack and the importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts.

The “greenwashing” denounced by the pirates

In the field of environmental protection, the study shows that structures that have not implemented responsible measures are more likely to be attacked.

The phenomenon also affects companies that have only developed solutions on the surface, sometimes to hide a cruel lack of concrete action, reports the study.

This

is also denounced by some hackers through their hacks.

"The hacker community is not homogeneous, and at least some hackers seem to be motivated by what they don't like, and not by the greed,"

John D'Arcy, senior manager

, told

scientific work.

In France,

reports that the National Information Systems Security Agency has already had to manage 104 cyberattacks since the start of the year, compared to 54 for the whole of 2019.

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