two new investigations opened in Paris

Two new investigations have been opened in Paris into cyberattacks targeting educational establishments in France, the Paris prosecutor’s office announced on Wednesday March 27, which had already opened an investigation into threats against high schools in the Ile-de-France region on March 21.

Investigation “concerns the messages broadcast via the digital work spaces (ENT) of Ile-de-France colleges on the night of March 26 to 27, 2024”the other “aims to centralize open investigations by the various public prosecutor’s offices concerning messages broadcast via the ENTs of other regional jurisdictions”explained the prosecution, which has national jurisdiction in the fight against cybercrime.

Cybercrime brigade seized

More than fifty Parisian educational establishments, mainly colleges, were targeted on Wednesday by new attack threats transmitted via the ENT, according to the rectorate and the town hall. The investigations were entrusted to the brigade fighting against cybercrime of the Parisian direction of the judicial police, as in the investigation which had been opened for threats against high schools in the Ile-de-France region on the night of March 20 to 21.

These three investigations concern the offenses of attacks on an automated data processing system implemented by the State, threats of death or damage to property dangerous to people against a person responsible for the mission of public service, apology for terrorism by means of an online public communication service, provocation to an act of terrorism, identity theft and disclosure of false information in order to make people believe in dangerous destruction, the prosecution listed.