[Regnum] The online resources of many government agencies in France were subject to a powerful cyber attack, BFMTV reported on March 11, citing sources in the country’s government.
According to the channel's sources, the attack began on the evening of March 10. Now access to government information resources has been restored, and the damage from the actions of hackers has been minimized.
BFMTV notes that government agencies have been subjected to a DDoS attack, in which numerous requests to an Internet resource lead to its overload.
As Regnum reported, in February, the French Ministry of the Armed Forces announced that it had information about cyber attacks of “Russian origin” on the country’s defense enterprises. According to the head of the ministry, Sebastien Lecornu, these cyber attacks are allegedly becoming more aggressive and occurring more often.
Previously, Russian media noted that “ Russian hackers ” have turned into a convenient “scarecrow” for American and European media and political strategists. The Kremlin said that no evidence of such attacks had ever been presented. Such accusations take on the character of some kind of mania or phobia, noted the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov.