PARIS: A pro-Russian hacking group claimed responsibility for a major cyberattack that halted package deliveries by France’s national postal service just days before Christmas, prosecutors said Wednesday. After the claim by the cybercrime group known as Noname057, French intelligence agency DGSI took over the investigation into the hacking attack, the Paris prosecutor’s office said in a statement to The Associated Press. The group has been accused of other cyberattacks in Europe, including around a NATO summit in the Netherlands and French government sites.

La Poste said it had been struck by a distributed denial of service incident, or DDoS, which 'rendered its online services inaccessible' and disrupted the delivery of packages and…

La Poste’s websites, apps and banking service affected by a DDoS incident, which is also delaying postal deliveries

PARIS: A pro-Russian hacking group claimed responsibility for a major cyberattack that halted package deliveries by France’s national postal service just days before Christmas,…