“Many ministerial services have been targeted” since Sunday evening, Matignon said late Monday afternoon, without giving more details on the sites affected.
This Monday, late afternoon, Numerama revealed that, according to its information, hackers were carrying out a cyberattack against the State interministerial network (RIE). If Matignon did not confirm the origin of the attack, the Prime Minister’s office declared that, since Sunday evening, “several state services [faisaient] the subject of computer attacks, the technical modalities of which are classic, but the intensity unprecedented”. As for the sites targeted, Matignon remained vague, simply mentioning “many ministerial services”. The Ministry of Labor would be affected by the cyberattack, argued for its part the AFP, of which The New Republic echoes.
While Numerama speaks of a cyberattack which would therefore have targeted the entire interministerial network of the State, the site of the latter specifies that the RIE’s mission is to connect “all State services on the national territory”. And to detail: “It ensures, for these services, the transport of flows internal to entities, secure exchanges between entities, as well as secure exchanges with third-party networks, in particular the Internet and the inter-state network which is a member of the European Community. “
An attack already claimed?
Still according to Numerama, the hacker group Anonymous Sudan claimed responsibility for the cyberattack on Telegram. The attack carried out would be of the “denial of service” type. Concretely, this consists of blocking a site by saturating it with requests. If this type of attack would generally have little impact, Numerama further suggests, the fact remains that those who claim the attack of the day, Anonymous Sudan, are known to use malicious computers. To summarize, the computers mobilized to multiply requests aimed at overloading the site may have been infected by malware.