Cybersecurity
Paris Olympics’ Cyber Team Braces for Onslaught From Hackers
- Attackers have previously targeted Games, anti-doping agencies
- France has already been hit by cyberattacks, disinformation
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Last month, websites for a French film festival and the Grand Palais, a historic exhibition and museum complex in Paris, shut down after a cyberattack. Researchers tracked the episodes to a group of hacktivists affiliated with Russian intelligence and reported that the hackers described it as a training exercise.
“Judging by the consistency of the group’s statements, they intend to carry out large-scale attacks during the Summer Olympics in Paris,” researchers at the cybersecurity firm Cyble Inc. wrote in a report.