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The Ministries of Justice and the Interior targeted by a computer attack

2020-09-07T18:12:25.212Z


Piracy would be contained. Hackers used e-mails from lawyers to penetrate the computers of magistrates and investigators.


Classic and brutal.

The ministries of justice and the interior, and several local authorities, were the subject of massive computer attacks last week.

As revealed in the

Journal du dimanche

, this weekend, these attacks particularly affected the judicial tribunal of Paris, which raised the alert on September 2, investigating offices as well as the public prosecutor, Rémy Heitz.

The latter having had the presence of mind not to open the contested attachment.

The attack, which concerns all services, would a priori have spared the national anti-terrorism prosecution, while the trial of the January 2015 attacks is in full swing.

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According to the Ministry of Justice, and some of the jurisdictions concerned, these attacks are completely under control.

"Except that a malicious program remains a malicious program, some sleep and can be triggered very late"

, underlines a magistrate, good connoisseur of the questions of cybercrime.

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Source: lefigaro

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