According to a recent survey by Numeramathe majority party would have been targeted by several Russian-sponsored cyberattacks during the presidential campaign. According to the Kremlin-backed hackers, these operations were carried out in retaliation against Emmanuel Macron’s aid to Ukraine.
Russia wants Macron to pay for supporting Ukraine
The party of the president re-elected on April 24, 2022 has been the victim of several Russian cyberattacks. On March 3, 2022, hackers carried out a fairly classic DDOS attack: a multitude of false connections have saturated the server on which the site was hosted. Russian hackers were quick to brag about their feat on Telegram, including on the channel “Cyber Army of Russia”. There is no doubt that this cyberattack was carried out to make President Macron pay for his support for Ukraine.
Russia hijacks Ukrainian internet infrastructure
The hackers have affixed the word “traitor” in one of the photos of President Macron. They added “That’s for the Stingers bitch”. Stingers are surface-to-air missiles sent by the United States and not by France. Did the hackers get the wrong target? Be that as it may, it must be recognized that these missiles have proven themselves against the Russian air force. Dozens of aircraft have been destroyed using this technology. For its part, France sent only anti-tank weapons Milan.
The hackers even congratulated Marine Le Pen on the evening of the first round
According to Numeramathe operation was allegedly orchestrated by Russian hackers from the Killnet group, an organization officially supported and funded by the Russian government. New DDOS attack on April 12, 2022 against the website en-marche.fr and Emmanuel Macron. The hackers publish this time the following message: “Who killed the official site of Emmanuel Macaroni’s party? Let’s hope it won’t hurt the presidential election.”. The hackers had even congratulated Marine Le Pen on the evening of the first round, for her qualification by writing “We hope that you, Madame Marie, will be able to establish a real friendship between Russia and France! Goodbye NATO ».
For several years, Killnet hackers have specialized in computer attacks against “declared enemies of the Kremlin”. During the month of April, the computer systems of several Lithuanian and Romanian airports were targeted because they facilitated the transport of weapons to Ukraine. However, the Ukrainians do not let themselves be done. In early April, Ukraine thwarted a massive attack on its power grid and currently a Ukrainian military unit specializing in cybersecurity attack russia. Twenty Russian sites, for example, were paralyzed on May 4.