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Criminal computer attacks against companies or institutions exploded last year in France, Guillaume Poupard, director general of Anssi, the public agency guardian of French computer security, said on Monday.
"In the victims who call on Anssi, with whom we are in contact, a fishy figure: 50 operations in 2019, 200 in 2020, so it's x4", he said on BFM Business .
"So there is truly an explosion," said the head of the National Agency for the Security of Information Systems.
“The exponential curve, unfortunately we're on it, and that worries us a lot,” he commented.
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A type of attack that "explodes and reinvents itself"
Guillaume Poupard noted "an inventiveness on the part of the attackers".
But "the actors who were attacked, who reacted and who tighten the protection of their system, we see that they are durably attacked much less than the others, at least in terms of the result of the attacks" he underlined. .
In early September, Anssi and the Ministry of Justice had published a practical guide in the form of a wake-up call on ransomware, a type of computer attack that "explodes and reinvents itself".
In this type of attack, hackers block data and demand payment of a ransom to unblock it.
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