Tag: cybercriminality
Senate report warns of foreign interference and calls for a “revolution” in mentalities
A few hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, internal security is a priority for the State. Among France’s concerns, foreign interference. The Senate is publishing…
Spyware potentially dangerous for Games
A vast cybersecurity operation to eradicate spyware that has silently contaminated several million computers worldwide is underway, the Paris prosecutor’s office announced on Thursday, July 25. This major computer cleanup…
Cybercrime booming in Southeast Asia
About 100 Taiwanese nationals were arrested on June 28 on the Indonesian island of Bali. They are accused of illegally using immigration permits and committing online scams targeting Malaysians. 2…
Foreign Interference Law: “The Russians and Chinese are not the only ones, our allies too”
Parliament definitively adopted this Wednesday, June 5, a law to strengthen the French arsenal against foreign interference which should make it possible to strengthen the legal framework for monitoring representatives…
four arrests and hundreds of servers shut down in global operation
According to European police, this is “the largest operation ever carried out” against malware. Four people were arrested and more than a hundred servers taken offline during this international operation…
high levels of cyber violence deter women from entering politics and activism
In Tunisia, digital technology is a double-edged tool for the cause of women. After the 2011 revolution, social networks helped free speech with the EnaZeda movement, a sort of Tunisian…
dozens of high schools targeted by attack threats during computer hacking
A video of beheading and a threat of attack targeted several high schools in Île-de-France. A hacker broke into the students’ digital workspace to send these messages. An investigation is…
several computer attacks of “unprecedented intensity” against several ministries
Several ministries have been the subject of computer attacks since Sunday March 10 in the evening of a “ unprecedented intensity ”, according to the government. The cyberattack was claimed…
in 2023, the level of cyber threats continued to increase
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…
“We hacked the hackers”, dismantling the “most harmful” cybercriminal group in the world
Thousands of victims, hospitals or town halls targeted, losses totaling billions of euros… The LockBit cybercriminal group, presented as “the most harmful » in the world, was dismantled during an…