The one-stop shop targeted by a denial-of-service (Ddos) attack just two days after it went live on January 1. This cyberattack technique consists of saturating a service by sending an impossible number of requests to process to saturate it and make it inaccessible.
This service, designed to simplify administrative procedures for companies, has thus received 10,000 modification requests per second, confirmed Bercy. “Suddenly the interface grinds and can’t take requests into account,” Bercy services noted. This hack was exposed by the Parisian Saturday According to the Ministry of Economy and Finance, the problem was resolved yesterday.
mandatory step
The blocking of this service therefore paralyzed part of the economic activity for almost a week. Since January 1, the one-stop shop is the obligatory step for the creation, cessation of activity or modification of the statute of a company.
Before this implementation, these procedures, which add up to four million per year, were handled by six networks of business processing centers (CFE), including those of the chambers of commerce and industry, chambers of commerce and crafts, chambers of agriculture, Urssaf and on the infogreffe site of the commercial courts.
This portal managed by the National Institute of Industrial Property (Inpi) should also allow the creation of a national registry of companies (RNE), provided for by the Pacte law of 2019, replacing the registry of commerce and companies (RCS), by time that includes craft, liberal and agricultural activities.
Source: BFM TV
