France, March 11 -- France'sNational Agency for the Security of Information Systems (Anssi) reported 4,386 "security events" on computer systems in 2024, an increase of 15 percent from the previous year, according to data revealed on Tuesday.

During the Paris Olympic Games and the rest of the year, 2024 was marked by a "large number of destabilisation attacks", noted Anssi in its report entitledPanorama de la cybermenace(Panorama of Cyberthreats), published on Tuesday.

Anssi's director Vincent Strubel, told France Inter radio that for example, a pro-Russian group "threatened to attack sewage treatment plants, to pollute the Seine during the Olympic Games".

He said that these actions were mainly carried out by pro-Russian and pro-Palest...