On Sunday evening, hackers replaced the home page of several dozen French websites with a warning:
"Those who mistreat Allah's Messenger must be punished."
This message, accompanied by a photograph of Emmanuel Macron and a call for a boycott of French products, leaves little doubt as to the intention of its authors: to bring the protests from several Muslim countries on the web, including the Turkey, following the words of the President of the Republic on freedom of expression.
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The affected sites belong to structures as diverse as a campsite, a manufacturer of insulating materials, or the library of a college in Seine-Saint-Denis.
Rather confidential, they were undoubtedly targeted by opportunism.
Indeed, it is easier for hackers to search for vulnerable targets than to attack a more established, potentially better protected group site.
No official site was affected.
From the first attacks,
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