Sunday March 10.
It is around midnight when the information system of the State interministerial network (RIE) is the target of a very unusual volume of denial of service attacks, ten times higher than what this network of state services during previous attacks of this type.
Hackers from the Anonymous Sudan group - which claimed responsibility for the attack - want to flood the system by saturating it with requests.
But they will not achieve their goals.
“
It was an attack of unprecedented intensity in terms of volume and duration, compared to what this network usually experiences.
But we have never been in a situation where the state information system no longer worked, and the attack did not have a major impact.
So it’s rather a successful test from that point of view,
” underlines Vincent Strubel, director general of the national information systems security agency (Anssi) in an interview with Le
Figaro
.
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