Cyber attacks of “unprecedented intensity” hit several French government agencies, The National reported, citing a communiqué from the office of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal. The information emphasizes that the government managed to contain the consequences.
The attack began on Sunday when “many ministerial services were attacked using familiar technical means but with unprecedented intensity,” Attal’s office said, without providing further details about the targets.
The attacks “are not currently being attributed to Russia”, an obvious suspicion for many given France’s support for Ukraine, a security source told AFP.
The Prime Minister’s Secretariat added that “a crisis team has been activated to take countermeasures,” meaning “the impact of these attacks has been reduced for most services and access to government websites has been restored.”
Specialized services, including the information security agency ANSSI, “applied filtering measures until the attacks stopped.”
A group calling itself Anonymous Sudan has claimed responsibility for what it says was a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on French government network infrastructure.
“We carried out a massive cyber attack… the damage will be massive,” the group said in a message on Telegram. “Many different sectors of digital government were affected, including very important websites with their respective subdomains.”
Anonymous Sudan is a well-known organization that has carried out attacks on websites in Sweden, Denmark and Israel in the past year.
Ostensibly based in Sudan, it says the group’s activities are aimed at countering what it sees as anti-Muslim activity, with some indications of sympathy for Russia, The National reported.
2024-03-12 07:55:00
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