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French PM Attal confirms government targeted in massive cyberattack by pro-Russia hackers

French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal.
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal. Photo: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Multiple government ministry websites were targeted by the hacker group Anonymous Sudan.

During the weekend, the French government was a hit by a “massive cyberattack”, targeting multiple government ministry websites. Anonymous Sudan, a pro-Russain hacktivist group, claimed responsibility for the attack and said in an announcement on Telegram that it had “conducted a massive cyber-attack on the infrastructure of the French Interministerial

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