Years of hacker attacks on Federal facilities clearly on the account of Russian spies, the Federal government is now safe and thus confirmed the findings of allied States.
Behind the mysterious initials APT28 one of the most serious cyber attacks on data and networks of Federal institutions. And the Federal government clearly sees the Russian military intelligence service GRU behind it.
The hacker group APT28, which is also referred to as a Fancy Bear or the Sofacy Group, known at the latest since the hacker attack on the democratic party before the presidential elections of 2016 in the USA to a wider audience. APT stands for Advanced Persistent Threat, that is, for advanced, persistent threat.
You would be in the Chancellery, not so sure you would keep up with a public debt allocation. In this case, the GRU, but “with a probability bordering on certainty” of the attackers, said government spokesman Steffen Seibert on Friday, and added: “This assessment is based on a very good own facts and sources.”
Political war on the web
Germany is not the only aggrieved state is still the only country to designate Russia as the author. The USA, the UK and the Netherlands had already made on Thursday Russia for hacker attacks. The objective is to make the world-Doping Agency (WADA) based in Montreal, and the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons (OPCW) in The Hague. The Dutch investigators want to have caught the Russians even in the act of Penetration to the OPCW-Wi-Fi-network, and published images of espionage equipment, as well as data from seized devices.
The Netherlands have already referred, in April, of four alleged Russian spies in the country
That these two organizations have been attacks targets of hackers, is no coincidence. Finally, the OPCW was looking for possible chemical weapons operations in Syria and the attack with nerve gas on the Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the UK. The WADA has dealt with doping allegations in athletics against Russia. The investigation into the Downing of the passenger aircraft MH17 were Dutch data, the target of attacks.
All these accusations of other Western States are now supported by the German accusations. After the hacker attack on the Bundestag in the year 2015, the entire IT had to be replaced. Finally, the attackers were but also in the particularly safety-relevant networks of defence and the Ministry of the interior invaded.
“Threat to democracy”
Not only in the case of the accusations against Russia, even at the possible consequences of a government spokesman went Seibert on Friday unusually far. The attacks would succeed, “they could threaten the freedom of society, public safety, basically, our democracy immediately,” he said.
In the winter 2014 games in Sochi, Russia has been accused of state-organized Doping
What the consequences of the allegations is unclear, for example, on the subject of Doping. According to the allegations of state-controlled doping at the Olympic winter games 2014 in Sochi was for the 2016 summer games in Rio only a smaller Russian team to compete, and in the winter 2018 games in Pyeongchang were selected Russian athletes under a neutral flag at the Start. But, shortly after South Korea, the International Olympic Committee took in Russia, and in September the suspension of the Russian anti-doping Agency lifted the world anti-doping Agency. This paved the way for the return of the country, in the world of sports. This rehabilitation may have been premature.