The French Prime Minister's Office announced on Monday that a number of French government agencies had suffered a “severe” cyberattack.
The nature of the attack, which began Sunday night, has not been confirmed, but the description is consistent with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
The French government said the attack was “carried out using well-known technical means but of unprecedented intensity.”
DDoS attacks cannot steal information, but they flood servers with junk requests, which can prevent users from accessing network resources.
Although DDoS incidents are believed to be the work of state-sponsored groups, the simple nature of the attack suggests that it cannot provide sustained destructive capabilities or provide the attacker with a way to penetrate the target network. means.
In recent years, such attacks have been launched by groups expressing support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Researchers believe some of these groups may have external sponsors. The French government has not disclosed the cause of the incident.
This weekend's attacks targeted a number of ministerial services, the Prime Minister's Office said. It is unclear whether it was limited to just his public-facing website used by the French government.
“The Crisis Monitoring Room has been activated to deploy countermeasures,” the statement said, adding that “the impact of these attacks on most services has been reduced and access to state websites has been restored.” .
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