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Silent Night, Dangerous Night

Hackers hit La Poste before Christmas — and Romania's energy grid is next

Platform: Team & Partner Management

Romania Energy Ransomware

ESA Data Breach

2025: The Year Cyber Got Personal

Easy Cyber Protection

1/5

La Poste knocked offline before Christmas

France's national postal service was hit by a DDoS attack on December 23, right before Christmas.

Package tracking down — postal workers couldn't track 2.6 billion annual deliveries during the busiest season
Banking disrupted — online payments at La Poste's banking arm went dark
200,000+ employees affected — systems weren't fully restored until after Christmas Day

Read the full story → https://www.securityweek.com/pro-russian-hackers-claim-cyberattack-on-french-postal-service/

2/5

Platform Spotlight: invite your team, manage your partners

Our biggest collaboration update yet.

User & access management — Invite team members and assign roles: Viewer, Admin, or Owner. Each role has clear permissions so nobody accidentally (or intentionally) changes what they shouldn't.
Role-based security — Proper access hierarchy means admins can't modify owner settings, and last-owner protection prevents lockouts.
Partner client management — Security consultants get a mobile-friendly sidebar to search, create, and switch between client organizations in seconds.
New homepage & partner page — Complete visual redesign with clear pricing and a dedicated partner registration flow.
Contact page — You can now reach us directly from the website.

Invite your first team member → https://app.easycyberprotection.com

3/5

Romania's energy grid hit next

On December 26 at 01:40, the "Gentlemen" ransomware group struck Romania's Oltenia Energy Complex

ERP systems, email, website — all encrypted and taken offline
National power grid safe — operational technology wasn't hit, but the "brain" of corporate operations was paralyzed
Connected targets — the water authority manages dams that Oltenia depends on for cooling and hydropower

Full analysis → https://industrialcyber.co/critical-infrastructure/romanian-water-authority-energy-producer-hit-by-cyber-attacks-in-apparent-coordinated-holiday-campaign/

4/5

European Space Agency data breach

A threat actor known as "888" claims to have stolen 200GB of sensitive data from the European Space Agency (ESA).

Source code — potentially for satellite systems and ground infrastructure
Confidential documents — research data, internal communications, contracts
Supply chain risk — ESA works with hundreds of contractors and partners across Europe

Details on the alleged breach → https://www.hendryadrian.com/alleged-european-space-agency-esa-data-breach/

5/5

2025: the year cyber got personal

As 2025 wraps up, the numbers tell a brutal story.

Ransomware up 34-50% — depending on which tracker you follow, attacks surged dramatically
Europe = 22% of victims — with UK, Germany, Italy, France, and Spain most targeted
$16.6 billion — total losses reported to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center
Attack speed: 24 hours — average time from initial breach to ransomware deployment dropped 48%

State of Ransomware 2025 → https://www.blackfog.com/the-state-of-ransomware-2025/

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