France accuses Russia of a decade’s worth of high-profile cyberattacks
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Summary
In a significant development, French authorities have accused Russia of carrying out numerous high-profile cyber attacks on French entities over a period of ten years.
These attacks are said to have been conducted to gain intelligence and undermine France, including a fake Islamic State takeover of a French TV broadcast in 2015 and the leak of Emmanuel Macron’s emails in 2017.
France has attributed the attacks to APT28, a Russian military intelligence unit also known as Fancy Bear.
This is the first time that France has made a public accusation of this kind, according to Le Monde.
It comes at a sensitive time given Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has already been the subject of cyber attacks, and Macron’s comments that France and Western allies would increase pressure on Russia over the next eight to ten days.