France Accuses Russia of Cyber Attacks on Ministries, Defense Firms

France's foreign ministry explicitly accused Russia's GRU military intelligence agency of mounting cyber attacks on a dozen entities including ministries, defense firms and think tanks since 2021 in an attempt to destabilize France. The accusations, levelled at GRU unit APT28, which officials said was based in Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia, are not the first by a Western power, but it is the first time Paris has blamed the Russian state on the basis of its own intelligence.

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