The chains, the website and several Twitter and Facebook pages of French television TV5 group world were victims Wednesday, April 8 to 22 hours a coordinated cyber attack, claimed by the Islamist group CyberCaliphate.
The chain has to interrupt its programs and make its inaccessible website to keep out the pirates . She regained control of its pages on social networks during the night, but the website still “maintenance” Thursday at 9 am.
A pre-recorded programs, but no newspapers
As for television, “We are trying to restore our eleven chains with their own programs” specifies the World M. Bigot Thursday thing in the morning:
“Since the attack, we only managed to broadcast one single program on every channel. We’re still not able to produce our own news, we broadcast only registered stock programs. We hope to overcome this in the late morning or early afternoon. “
” Our systems have been extremely deteriorated “ by this attack ” with incredible power “ and return to normal ” will take hours or even days “, explains Mr. Bigot.
” You start to analyze with experts who came on site. The cyber attack is a major power: our production systems are powerful and sophisticated and had recently been reviewed. “
The director of TV5 assured that a complaint would be filed, ” if only that to mark the attack and then later to eventually work with insurance “.
So far, the jihadist group had managed to hijack accounts on social networks, but not to prevent the broadcasting of television programs.
For the Prime Minister, this piracy is a “unacceptable attack on freedom of information and expression” . Manuel Valls posted in the same message the “total editorial support” . The culture minister Fleur Pellerin described the attack of “real terrorist act” .
Threats against the French military
During the duration of the attack, many users have found abnormalities on group sites: the appearance of black and white header Islamic State group, but also publishing propaganda videos and threats against French soldiers . The documents submitted as French identification and relatives of soldiers involved in operations resume against the AEs were posted on the Facebook account of TV5 Monde.
According to our information, the services ‘French survey – ANSSI particular, the authority in charge of IT security sensitive institutions – and mobilized, but can not decide on the authenticity of identity documents issued and the identity of the attackers.
A message also accused French President Francois Hollande of committing “an unforgivable mistake” leading “a war that serves no” . “This is why the French have received gifts from January to Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Hide” , add the pirates, with reference to bloody attacks against the satirical weekly and the store that killed 17 people between 7 and 9 January in Paris.
CyberCaliphate group appeared early January. He particularly noted by the diversion of Twitter account CentCom, the center of US Command in the Middle East and Central Asia, and taking control of it for several minutes to Newsweek in February. Two less sophisticated attacks that hit that TV5 Monde.
International Francophone TV channel based in Paris, TV5 Monde is received in more than 200 countries and territories around the world.
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