Multiple government institutions across France have witnessed cyberattacks of "unprecedented intensity" just months before the Paris Olympics. The latest cyberattack to hit France follows a warning from Prime Minister Gabriel Attal's defense adviser just last week that the Olympics games in July and European Parliament elections in June could be "significant targets".

A hacker group called Anonymous Sudan has claimed responsibility for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the French government network infrastructure. The government said that a crisis cell has been activated to deploy counter measures and that the impact of these attacks has been reduced for most services and access to state websites restored. Read more about this story on our LinkedIn page