Foreign Minister Baerbock: Russian secret service answerable for cyber assault on SPD | EUROtoday

DThe federal authorities blames a unit of the Russian army intelligence service GRU for a cyber assault on the SPD initially of final yr. “Russian state hackers have attacked Germany in cyberspace,” stated Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Friday throughout her go to to Australia in Adelaide and introduced the implications.

The SPD introduced in June 2023 that electronic mail accounts of the SPD get together government had already been the goal of a cyber assault in January. The SPD stated on the time that this was made doable by a safety hole within the software program firm Microsoft that was nonetheless unknown on the time of the assault.

“It cannot be ruled out that there was an outflow of data from individual email inboxes,” stated an SPD spokeswoman.

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According to Baerbock, the federal authorities's investigations, led by the Foreign Office, have now been accomplished.

“Today we can clearly attribute this attack from last year to the APT28 group, which is controlled by the Russian secret service GRU,” stated the Green politician. “This is completely unacceptable and will not go without consequences.”