The government has called on the media to “vigilance” on Thursday after the jihadi cyber attack that blocked for several hours the French international channel TV5 Monde, noting that similar attacks could happen again.
All programs could be restored on Thursday at 18:00, though Friday 4:00, the website remained inaccessible, displaying an error message.
To help them protect themselves, the Ministers of Culture, Fleur Pellerin, and Interior, Bernard Cazeneuve, have met on Thursday urgently bosses audiovisual, urging them to “raise their level of precaution.”
Wednesday at 10:00 p.m., pirates claiming to the organization of the Islamic State (EI) took control of the Facebook and Twitter accounts and TV5 site by posting the jihadist propaganda messages and blocked all its computer system, reducing the system to a black screen.
The attack was “unprecedented in the history of television,” said the general manager of the chain Yves Bigot. The purpose of the pirates might be to “take (the) antennas hostage” and “their message also on antennas and not just on social networks and our sites,” he asked himself, while remaining very careful.
“We can not rule out that similar attacks could happen again, they are already planned,” warned Fleur Pellerin. An investigation was launched under the leadership of the Paris prosecutor.
At the meeting, which brought together twenty media officials, including Le Monde, France Media World, France Télévisions, BFMTV and AFP, Fleur Pellerin proposed state assistance for the implementation of preventive or corrective action.
The government “favors” the terrorist attack against the track for TV5 Monde, said of Meanwhile Bernard Cazeneuve, while refusing to comment on the authors.
He stressed “the importance of the threat to France,” the attacks to cyber attacks.
Many French media sites have already been victims of cyber jihadists from attacks against Charlie Hebdo and a kosher store in January.
TV5 Monde, captured by 250 million households worldwide and highly regarded in Africa, embodies the culture and French language information to International. “By addressing TV5 Monde, the perpetrator or perpetrators of this attack Savai (are) that their action would have a significant impact,” said TV5.
“This is a coordinated and premeditated action, we can not break down these channels simultaneously without being very well prepared,” said for his part Gérôme Billois, cybersecurity expert at Solucom.
– ‘Freedom of expression under’ –
The government has expressed its support on Thursday morning to the chain. Prime Minister Manuel Valls estimated on Twitter that it was an “unacceptable attack on freedom of information and expression.” Bernard Cazeneuve, Fleur Pellerin and Laurent Fabius (Foreign Affairs) immediately went to the headquarters of TV5 in Paris.
“Through this attack, it is freedom of expression, it is culture which are covered, “said Fleur Pellerin.
” The problem for the media is that today they do not perceive the IT and physical security as a priority and do not necessarily achieved the ad hoc investments, “said David Grout Intel Security, specializing in computer security.
TV5 Monde had however” the famous firewall that everyone we certified that he was at the height ” noted Yves Bigot.
During Wednesday’s attack, hackers have posted on the Facebook account of the chain of documents presented as identification and French CV relatives of soldiers involved in operations against the IE. The Ministry of Defence has undertaken to verify their authenticity.
The message posted by hackers on the website of the chain accused the President of committing Holland “an unforgivable mistake” leading “a war no use. ” “That’s why the French have received the gift of January Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Kosher”, added the pirates, referring to attacks that killed 17 people in January in Paris.
France is part of an international military coalition antijihadiste, conducting bombing for several months in Iraq and Syria, where the IU took control vast territories.
The TV5 hacking intervened on launch day TV5 Monde Style HD, new thematic channel dedicated to “the art of French living,” which began broadcasting particularly in North Africa and the Middle East.
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