Around thirty alerts concerning drones, and 68 cyberattacks since the start of the Olympic Games. This Wednesday, July 31, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal gave an update on security in the capital, accompanied by most of his ministers. The Matignon resident affirmed that all these attempts had been well managed, while specifying the names of the targeted sites: Bercy and La Villette, the place where Club France, the largest fan zone in Paris, was set up. “All these cyberattacks, all 68, including the two cyberattacks targeting Olympic sites, were detected in time and were thwarted,” he declared.
Following a meeting with the teams of the National Agency for Information Systems Security (ANSSI), organized on July 25, Gabriel Attal had already spoken about cybersecurity threats during the Olympic Games. This Wednesday, the government did not specify the nature of the attacks suffered (computer viruses, server saturation, etc.).
At the last edition, in Tokyo in 2021, the organizers had assured that they had suffered more than 450 million cyber attacks. An impressive figure but one that should be put into perspective, because the vast majority of these were attempts to paralyze IT services by saturating them with connections. Before the start of the Paris Games, the Paris 2024 technology director, Bruno Marie-Rose, said he expected “eight to ten times more” cyber attacks than in Japan.