France hit by cyberattack, Olympics and European Parliament elections at risk

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France hit by cyberattack, Olympics and European Parliament elections at risk
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The latest cyberattack to hit France follows a warning from Attal's defence adviser just last week that the Olympics games in July and European Prime Minister Gabriel Attal's office said several state bodies were targeted but did not provide details.

The latest cyberattack to hit France follows a warning from Attal's defence adviser just last week that the Olympics games in July and European Prime Minister Gabriel Attal 's office said several state bodies were targeted but did not provide details. A source told AFP that the attacks "are not currently attributable to Russia ," an obvious suspect for many given Paris' support for Kyiv since the invasion of Ukraine.

The PM's staff added that a "crisis cell has been activated to deploy countermeasures", meaning "the impact of these attacks has been reduced for most services and access to state websites restored.

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