The level of computer threats in France continued to increase in 2023, assures the French Computer Security Agency, which presented the cyber threat panorama to the press on Tuesday, February 27. Anssi fears that this year, the Olympic Games will offer hackers opportunities to act, and will be a target for all types of cyberattacks.
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The panorama of cyberthreat, painted by Anssi, is particularly gloomy. Not only did cyberattacks, which block access to an organization’s computer system and demand payment of a ransom to decrypt the data, increase again last year, but strategic and industrial espionage also saw an increase. exponential progression.
Thus, last year the agency noted more than 1,100 incidents: attempts to take control of a network to shut it down and destroy it, compared to 800 a year earlier. Telecommunications companies and the energy sector are among the main targets. And this year, the Olympics will also be a target, warns Vincent Strubel, president of Anssi.
The actors who are likely to attack during the Olympic Games period are all threat actors. These are state actors, those who engage in sabotage today, or reconnaissance with a view to carrying out sabotage, they are also and above all the actors of organized crime who seek to make money. And the period of intense activity of the Olympic Games will undoubtedly be accompanied by a particular focus of these criminal groups on France, and we are preparing for that too.
Anssi is responsible for protecting the 350 entities linked to the competition, 80 of which are critical, with the aim of preventing France from being the victim of attempted destabilization during the games.
What we see in the panorama is generally an increase in the threat in all its components. Whether it is espionage, whether it is sabotage of state origin, or extortion of funds of criminal origin, we see it all increasing and developing in terms of the number of victims and victims. ‘impact.
Vincent Strubel, president of the National Information Systems Security Agency
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