Infected USB keys, compromising invitations… These “gifts” offered by foreign powers to trap the French economy

Booby-trapped gadgets, suspicious invitations, overly luxurious gifts... Keen to help spread a culture of internal security within French companies, the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI) has decided to warn this fall of "the risks associated with gifts offered by foreign actors". His method is well known, it is already the 123rd “economic interference flash” to be broadcast: detailing, through anonymized examples, the actions of economic interference of which companies are regularly victims.

The specialists of the DGSI, one of whose missions is the protection of the French economic and scientific heritage, know full well that the giving of gifts aimed at “streamlining” professional, commercial or social relations is a common practice.