France accuses Russian intelligence of repeated cyber attacks since 2021

France accuses a Russia-linked hacking group of targeting the Paris Olympics and French agencies

The French government has accused a hacking group linked to Russian military intelligence of targeting the Paris Olympics and French government agencies and companies.

France accuses Russian military intelligence over cyberattacks

France on Tuesday accused Russian military intelligence of staging cyberattacks, including against an organisation involved in the Paris Olympics and President Emmanuel Macron's first election campaign in 2017.

France accuses Russian intelligence of repeated cyber attacks since 2021

France's foreign ministry explicitly accused Russia's GRU military intelligence agency on Tuesday of mounting cyber attacks on a dozen entities including ministries, defence firms and think tanks since 2021 in an attempt to destabilise France.

France accuses Russia of a decade’s worth of high-profile cyberattacks

France’s President Emmanuel Macron attends a meeting with representatives of the sectors affected by US tariffs, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, on April 3, 2025. | Image: MOHAMMED BADRA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images In an unprecedented display of diplomatic aggression, French authorities publicly accused Russia of sponsoring several high-profile cyber attacks on French entities for over a decade to gather intelligence and destabilize the country. Th…

In first, France accuses Russian intelligence of repeated cyber attacks

France on Tuesday directly accused Russia's GRU military intelligence agency of a string of cyber attacks, inc

The French government has linked the Russian military intelligence service (GRU) to a series of cyberattacks against French interests in recent years, including actions targeting the 2024 Paris Olympics.