800 administrative sites were targeted, according to the government

An unprecedented number. The Minister of the Civil Service, Stanislas Guerini, announced Friday March 15 that “800 administrative sites” had been targeted during the cyber attack “on an unprecedented scale” which began on Sunday and lasted 48 hours, claimed by pro-Russian hackers.

Hackers had mentioned a “massive cyber attack” targeting in particular the Ministries of Economy, Culture, Ecological Transition, the Prime Minister’s services or the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC).

An allegiance to “Russophile networks”

On Tuesday, the Paris prosecutor’s office’s anti-cybercrime section opened an investigation after these computer attacks.

Asked about the origin of these attacks, and the possibility that Anonymous Sudan, a group which supports Russia and several Islamist causes, is at the origin, the minister appeared “very careful”. “A certain number of names have been mentioned (…) in any case [il existe] a bundle of presumptions about an almost certain allegiance to Russophile networks”said Stanislas Guerini.