Their impact is certainly reduced, but the cyberattacks which have targeted several state services since Sunday are of "unprecedented intensity", AFP learned on Monday March 11 from Matignon.

Access to state sites has been “restored”, AFP also reports.

These attacks "are not attributable to the Russians at this stage", according to a security source.

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“Since yesterday evening (Sunday), several State services have been the subject of computer attacks whose technical methods are classic but the intensity is unprecedented,” indicated the Prime Minister's services.

“Many ministerial services were thus targeted.”

The Ministry of Labor is particularly affected, according to an internal source in the ministry.

“Awareness of so-called hybrid threats”

Matignon indicated that a crisis unit had been activated on Sunday evening “to deploy countermeasures and guarantee the continuity of IT services”.

“At this stage, the impact of these attacks has been reduced for most services and access to state sites restored,” it added.

“The mobilized teams from DINUM (interministerial digital directorate) and ANSSI (national information systems security agency) continue to implement filtering measures until the end of these attacks,” they said. specified the Prime Minister's services.

Before the Paris Olympic Games this summer, the European elections on June 9 will be “a considerable challenge and target” for foreign manipulation, declared Wednesday March 6, the Secretary General of Defense and National Security (SGDSN), Stéphane Bouillon.

The SGDSN, dependent on the Prime Minister, must organize on March 29 for all French political parties candidates in these European elections a meeting to "raise awareness of so-called hybrid threats" in order to address the risks of "cyberattacks, manipulation of information and foreign interference.

The French Minister of the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu, for his part called, on February 20, for the strengthening of security measures in the face of threats of Russian “sabotage and cyberattack” which target his ministry “primarily”, according to an internal memo of which the AFP was aware.

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