Hackers Came, but the French Were Prepared

[spaceoctopus]

An interesting read about how the French used some kind of cyber decoys to divert some of the cyber attacks coming from Russian hackers during the presidential campaign.

 

[konkisko]

Thank you! Great article, which shows a cyber warfare nowadays.

The phishing mails were “high quality,”

Does anybody know if it is possible to see an examples of these emails?

 

[lab34]

I've heard Mr Mahjoubi on the radio while I was in a trafic jam .

The journalist point out that his team count 18 peoples. He answers that they are not specialists in cybersecurity, just guys who publish on social network, and he is neither a specialist.
Mounir Mahjoubi : "Il faut que les Français créent une culture de la sécurité en ligne"

Comment l'équipe Macron a tenté de déjouer les hackers
"We sent e-mails to our teams with links to credible login screen copies with subtile differences in web addresses, such as using dots rather than hyphens, etc. If you read the URL you can not distinguish "

"Every week, we send to the team screen all the phishing addresses that we found during the week," says Mahjoubi. The counter-attack consisted mainly of feeding the pirates, giving them dozens of false passwords. "You can flood mails of your collaborators with several passwords and log-ins, true, false, so the people behind them use a lot of time trying to understand them."

It's the story that he tells us, maybe that, in reality, there were some police officers behind them

 

[lab34]

He says that one of the last phishing mail was sent from his name, warning the team about a phishing campaign and ask them to download and open two documents.

 

[spaceoctopus]

I've heard Mr Mahjoubi on the radio while I was in a trafic jam .

The journalist point out that his team count 18 peoples. He answers that they are not specialists in cybersecurity, just guys who publish on social network, and he is neither a specialist.
Mounir Mahjoubi : "Il faut que les Français créent une culture de la sécurité en ligne"

Comment l'équipe Macron a tenté de déjouer les hackers
"We sent e-mails to our teams with links to credible login screen copies with subtile differences in web addresses, such as using dots rather than hyphens, etc. If you read the URL you can not distinguish "

"Every week, we send to the team screen all the phishing addresses that we found during the week," says Mahjoubi. The counter-attack consisted mainly of feeding the pirates, giving them dozens of false passwords. "You can flood mails of your collaborators with several passwords and log-ins, true, false, so the people behind them use a lot of time trying to understand them."

It's the story that he tells us, maybe that, in reality, there were some police officers behind them

One way or another,they seem to know exactly what they are doing.So the idea of some kind of undercover operation is perfectly plausible

 

[lab34]

Mounir Mahjoubi has just been nominated minister of the Digital.