People’s Cyber Army & HackNeT Trial DDoS Attacks On France

## Executive Summary On June 23, 2024, Cyble Research & Intelligence Labs documented trial DDoS attacks claimed by Russian hacktivist groups People’s Cyber Army and HackNeT against multiple French websites ahead of the Paris Olympics; the report links the actors to APT44, describes a Python-based Layer 4/Layer 7 DDoS tool (multithreading, multiprocessing, proxy support), shows Telegram posts and check-host.net screenshots as evidence, and provides malware hashes for Windows and Linux binaries as indicators of compromise.