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Hackers -- possibly Russian -- have reportedly had access to the German government's secure network for over a year.
As first revealed by German news agency DPA, the hackers were able to steal data in the intrusion, which was apparently spotted in December.
The report quoted unnamed sources as saying the chief suspect is the notorious APT28 or Fancy Bear group, which was reportedly behind the German parliament's big 2015 hacking and, months later, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) compromise in the US.
Fancy Bear is widely believed to be under the Kremlin's control. Apart from the Bundestag and DNC, its targets have included everyone from the Ukrainian military and US defense contractors, to Russian opposition parliamentarians and the Putin-critical punk group Pussy Riot.
The group's previous German hack involved the Bundestag's regular network. This time it's the secure Berlin-Bonn Information Network (IVBB), an intranet run by the Interior Ministry that comes with higher usage restrictions for users and is supposed to be firewalled to the gills.
Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
https://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?&tag=Cyberattacks
Hackers -- possibly Russian -- have reportedly had access to the German government's secure network for over a year.
As first revealed by German news agency DPA, the hackers were able to steal data in the intrusion, which was apparently spotted in December.
The report quoted unnamed sources as saying the chief suspect is the notorious APT28 or Fancy Bear group, which was reportedly behind the German parliament's big 2015 hacking and, months later, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) compromise in the US.
Fancy Bear is widely believed to be under the Kremlin's control. Apart from the Bundestag and DNC, its targets have included everyone from the Ukrainian military and US defense contractors, to Russian opposition parliamentarians and the Putin-critical punk group Pussy Riot.
The group's previous German hack involved the Bundestag's regular network. This time it's the secure Berlin-Bonn Information Network (IVBB), an intranet run by the Interior Ministry that comes with higher usage restrictions for users and is supposed to be firewalled to the gills.
Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
https://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?&tag=Cyberattacks