Cyber Incident Victim: Paris Air Show
Date:
Jun 2025
Location:
France
Summary
The website of a major international aviation exhibition experienced an abnormal surge in connections that led to its temporary shutdown by maintenance staff. Authorities opened a cybercrime investigation through the Brigade de Lutte contre la CyberCriminalité to determine whether the traffic spike constituted a deliberate attack. Industry officials noted a sharp rise in cyber threats against the sector, citing a reported six‑hundred percent increase over the past year.
| CIA Posture | Motives | Tactics, Techniques & Procedures |
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| Available to members | 2 motives | 1 technique |
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| 0 actors | Available to members | Available to members |
Description
On Monday 16 June 2025, the opening day of the Salon International de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace (SIAE) du Bourget, the event’s official website experienced an exceptional and abnormal volume of connection attempts. A police source quoted by Valeurs actuelles indicated that the surge could constitute a cyber attack. Between 12:00 and 12:15 local time, the salon’s information technology service took the website offline. The site remained suspended during that fifteen‑minute interval. Following the outage, the Brigade de Lutte contre la CyberCriminalité (BL2C) opened an investigation into the incident. The BL2C is responsible for addressing offenses against automated data processing systems and operates under the Prefecture of Police of Paris.
The Salon du Bourget is a biennial international aerospace exhibition that was first held in 1953. Each edition brings together military representatives and industrial companies from around the world to display aircraft prototypes, munitions, and drones. In the same article, the industrial group Thalès noted that cyber attacks targeting the aerospace sector had increased by 600% over the preceding year. The investigation by the BL2C is focused on the alleged attempt to block the website. As of the report’s publication, no arrests or additional technical findings had been disclosed. No further details about the outcome of the investigation were provided in the article.