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Presidential election: "In 2022, there will be attempts at foreign interference"

5/31/2021, 1:29:55 AM


INTERVIEW - For François-Bernard Huyghe, research director at the Institute for International and Strategic Relations (Iris) and specialist in cyberinfluence, the presidential election will push parties to be wary.

LE FIGARO.

- How to explain the increase in cyber attacks against political parties?

François-Bernard HUYGHE.

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There is an upsurge in cyber attacks in all areas and they are increasingly sophisticated. This trend has further accelerated during the Covid period, in particular because people work more at home, where they use computers where security is very relative. In addition, since 2016, there has been a rise in supposed or real interference in the electoral process in various countries. They are carried out by groups of hackers who are often tolerated by states and intelligence services. This was the case for the US election in 2016, where cyber hackers managed to retrieve and publish confidential Democratic Party data, which sparked several media scandals. In 2017, two days before the second round of the French presidential election,the publication of Macron Leaks

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