New Caledonia foils a cyberattack “of unprecedented strength”


Millions of emails, from “different countries”, were sent to New Caledonia on Tuesday, May 21, after the announcement of Emmanuel Macron’s visit to the territory.

“An access provider suffered an attack to saturate the New Caledonian network. The teams managed to control this attack. Millions of emails were sent simultaneously to an email address, which was intended to saturate the New Caledonian internet network and render it inoperable. New Caledonia and the Pacific Cyber Resource Centre were able to respond very effectively,” the government member said, adding that the OPT teams in particular had managed to control this computer attack.

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Source: ACTU


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