The affair could make you smile and yet. Basically, it above all shows the capacity or desire to cause nuisance on the part of Russian hackers. On March 2, reports the newspaper The worldthe Telegram channel CyberArmyofRussia_Reborn publishes a video claiming that hackers managed to remotely sabotage the Courlon-sur-Yonne (Yonne) hydroelectric power plant in France.
A bad joke? No way. In a report published Wednesday by Mandiant (the cutting-edge cybersecurity company owned by Google), we learn that this propaganda channel is directly controlled by Sandworm, one of the main elite units of Russian military intelligence (GRU).
“There was definitely a computer intrusion”
Still according to information from World, if there was indeed a computer intrusion into control software for a French hydroelectric installation, it was not the Courlon-sur-Yonne dam as the hackers probably thought. But from an old water mill with the private power plant of a small village of 300 inhabitants, Courlandon, located in the Marne.
A manipulation that is not really reassuring, however, which reminds us to be vigilant a few months before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on the Seine, knowing that these hackers are very fond of cyberattacks on water management infrastructures of countries allied to the ‘Ukraine…