Russia on Wednesday knocked what it called unfounded accusations by the French government that it hacked President Emmanuel Macrons project in 2017.
We highly turn down the unproven accusations by the French side, the Russian Embassy in France said on Telegram, after Paris implicated Moscow of being behind cyberattacks against France throughout the last decade.France on Tuesday implicated the Russian military intelligence GRU of staging cyberattacks, including against an organisation associated with the Paris Olympics and Macrons very first election campaign in 2017.
Western countries have for years implicated Russian intelligence of cyberattacks and interfering in their political systems, including election campaigns.French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot took the accusations to the UN Security Council, demanding that Russia, whose envoy remained in the chamber, immediately stop the attacks.Barrot said Russia used a branch of the GRU military intelligence referred to as the APT28 attack group.
Known as Fancy Bear, the branch has actually been connected to global attacks including in the 2016 United States election, when emails of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton were leaked.Relations in between France and Russia have actually been tense given that Moscow introduced its Ukraine intrusion in 2022, with Paris becoming one of Kyivs primary allies.