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Lockbit group claims to have attacked the Agency for Aerial Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar

The Lockbit ransomware group claims to have attacked the Agency for the Safety of Air Navigation in Africa and Madagascar (ASECNA), an air traffic control agency based in Senegal that covers 16.1 million square kilometres and has 18 member states, including France and 17 African countries. This breach in air safety therefore affects several countries whose airlines fly over African territories, but especially France, the only European member of the agency.  Read more about it : here