Cyber Threat Overview 2022

ANSSI's Cyber Threat Overview 2022 reports sustained high cyber threat activity in France during 2022: ransomware and financially-motivated crime remained prevalent (notably impacting SMEs, local authorities and healthcare), state-associated espionage persisted (repeated intrusions tied to Chinese-linked sets and Russia-Ukraine driven campaigns), widespread exploitation of severe, patchable vulnerabilities (Exchange ProxyShell, Log4j, Confluence, GLPI, Zimbra) was observed, attackers increasingly target peripheral devices, hypervisors and MSPs, private surveillance/spyware and data leaks amplified risk, and the report emphasizes urgent mitigations: timely patching, MFA, session protection, detection and incident response capabilities.