It is a war of a new kind for which the European democracies, which are its main targets, are hardly prepared.
For several years, emerging powers, but also terrorist groups and radical currents, have shifted their struggle against Western influence but also against its values to cyberspace.
The atrocious assassination of Samuel Paty in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine showed how the dissemination of Islamist messages on social networks could have a dramatic impact.
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In a different vein, the indictment by the American courts of six agents of the Gru, the Russian military services, in a series of major hacks, recalled that the manipulation of cyberspace was not only the prerogative of radicalized Islamist communities.
Once again, France is on the front line: among the attacks attributed to Russian spies, is the one that targeted, through malicious software, a hundred
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