College students trapped! What is Operation Cactus?

Recently, cyber attacks have been on the rise and are not sparing educational establishments, as shown by the recent hacking of ENTs and those of France Travail.
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A punchy operation!

Like the serpent in the Garden of Eden, the government has decided to move up a gear for an operation to tempt the youngestand launched the cactus operation (who rubs it, gets pricked!).

Behind this rather innocuous name, we find a real battalion : the anti-cybercrime section of the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office and JUNALCO (J3), the Ministry of National Education and Youth (HFDS -DGESCO-DNE), the Ministry of the Interior and Overseas (Command of the Ministry of the Interior in cyberspace), Cybermalveillance.gouv.fr (GIP ACYMA) and the magistrates of the section for the fight against cybercrime!

Everyone worked together to set up an operation based on a phishing simulation. Let us remember, the latter constitutes the first cyber threat in France and which aimed to raise awareness and empower young people (11-18 years old) about cyber risks.

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The bond of temptation!

As part of the operation, certain students (editor’s note: the middle school students of the Yvelines department (78) and all the middle school students of the Orléans-Tours academy) have thus received on their digital work spaces (the famous ENT accessible in particular via Pronote) a link to get it for free cracked games and free cheats.

Obviously, some have had their finger on the URL! In fact, they were directed to a 1min15 video, which aims to inform them, make them responsible and dissuade them from carrying out illegal actions on the Internet ! A first in France!

The content of this video, constructed collectively, is part of an approach of public interest and is complementary to the actions already carried out by the Ministry of National Education and Youth. The operation, experimental, is aimed at voluntary academies.

Ultimately, this action could be generalized to all educational establishments.

As such, a kit containing all the elements of the campaign will be made available to each of the academies to enable them to deploy this awareness-raising action.

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