Cyberattacks on the Paris Olympics are inevitable and France will do everything in its power to limit the impact they may have on the event, French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said on Thursday.
“We are a target. There will be cyberattacks. The key thing is to limit their impact,” Attal told reporters yesterday.
The director of technology and information systems for the Tokyo Olympics, Marie-Rose Bruno, stated that “eight to ten times more” cyberattacks were anticipated. The French government’s cyber security agency issued a warning on Thursday, stating that ransomware assaults during the forthcoming Olympic Games in Paris are “inevitable.”
For the past two years, French officials have been getting ready to defend against an unprecedented volume of cyberattacks during the July 26–27 Olympic Games in Paris.
Threats from a wide range of sources could include criminal organizations, nations eager to derail the Games, like Russia, “hacktivists” with political aspirations, or gamblers.
Although the government’s cyber security agency, Anssi, stated that it was “unrealistic” to anticipate that all attacks would be prevented, it did express confidence that security teams would be able to handle the threat of such attacks.
“It’s absolutely certain and inevitable that ransomware attacks will occur during the games,” the agency said. “And statistically, there is a high chance that ransomware attacks will affect actors who will be involved in the games.”.
CrowdStrike’s problems last week forced broadcasters off air and left customers without access to services such as healthcare or banking, and it also affected some operations of the organisers of the Paris Games..
