The websites of a number of French cities and at the least one division had been inaccessible Tuesday after a gaggle of hackers claimed assaults they described as retaliation for French help for Ukraine.
At 1600 GMT, the websites of the cities of Marseille and Tarbes had been down, as was the positioning of the division of Haute-Garonne.
The assaults had been claimed on X by a hackers group calling themselves NoName, a collective already recognized for different assaults and for defending Russian factors of view.
On their X account, the hackers claimed to have additionally attacked the websites of cities akin to Nantes, Bordeaux, Poitiers, Pau, Nimes, Good, Angers, Le Havre, and Montpellier, in addition to the division of Les Landes, French Polynesia and New Caledonia, however there have been all nonetheless working Tuesday.
The mayor of Good, Christian Estrosi, confirmed on X that town’s web site had been focused.
Marseille’s city corridor informed AFP that the servers that host town’s web sites had been topic to assaults that required them to enact “safety mechanisms that had the consequence of constructing them inaccessible”.
The cities of Pau and Angers, in addition to the Landes division, stated that they had not seen any incidents.
DDoS assaults, or “distributed denial of service”, are ceaselessly utilized by NoName in a way that entails saturating websites with an enormous variety of computerized requests that render them inoperable.
The assaults usually don’t contain stealing knowledge.
Benoit Grunemwald, a cybersecurity skilled at ESET, stated the purpose seems to be propaganda by “creating an impression of a local weather of digital insecurity”.