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French newspaper “Le Monde” just published an article confirming that the US/NSA indeed hacked the Élysée Palace in 2012.
‘Quantum Insert’ has been used to hack the machines. This type of attacks was used in the GCHQ/NSA operation against employees of the Belgian telecom Belgacom (renamed Proximus today).
The malware was detected in May 2012 — between the two rounds of the Presidential election — and the help of the Technical Division of the DGSE was requested.
Bernard Barbier — the Director of the DGSE Technical Division from 2006 to 2013 — came to the conclusion that the US/NSA was behind the hack.
The fact that the NSA spies on the French President has shocked a few people but Barbier is not too surprised.
“In the Intelligence World, you have some allies. You don’t have friends.”
"In intelligence world, you have some allies. You don't have friends" - Interesting reading on what happened 4 years ago, hoping lessons have been learned, as well as some interesting thinking about how to team up with some allies in scaling capacity.
There is now a way, thanks to Ed Snowden, to detect "quantum insert" attacks : https://www.wired.com/2015/04/researchers-uncover-method-detect-nsa-quantum-insert-hacks/