German companies have been compromised by suspected Chinese hackers. Searches of two radio broadcasters, according to at least eight German companies were attacked, including six Dax-listed companies.
Large German companies are already subjected for years to attacks of a suspected Chinese hacker group. The research of the Bavarian broadcasting company (BR) and North German broadcasting (NDR) show. Under the above-mentioned company BASF, Siemens, and Henkel are among others: in Addition, about a dozen were attacked additional companies from abroad.
The industrial giant Siemens confirmed on Wednesday, on request, to be at the beginning of June 2016, the target of a Hacker attack would have been. “We have, after extensive analysis, to date, no evidence to suggest that during this attack, the data are flown down,” said a group spokesman.
The plastic manufacturer Covestro it was said, had also been affected: “There was the experimental us spy.” It was to drain, but no data.
At the beginning of April, the chemical giant had confirmed Bayer, to be the victim of a Cyber-attack have been. Already since the beginning of 2018, there have been indications that the corporate network was attacked with malicious software, “Winnti” mentioned hacker group.
Political espionage instead of in-game money-Grab?
For the first time the hacker group was unmasked in October 2011 by IT security experts from Kaspersky Lab. It is considered to be highly professional, attacks are usually noticed in the first place late. First of all, the attackers had specialized according to experts, on networks for Online games and handles money, digital certificates, and user data.
Finally, the Winnti Hacker went on to expand her area of political espionage. The Reporter of BR and NDR found that the IT systems of the government of Hong Kong with the malicious software were found to be infected. A government spokesman confirmed the incident on request.
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Beijing’s Mercenaries?
Anti-virus vendors and security experts observe the group Winnti for several years. Several persons with whom the researchers were able to your of BR and NDR talk, assume that the hackers work from China.
Several Dax-listed companies, including BASF and Bayer, founded in October 2016, the German cyber-security organization (DCSO), in the fight against hackers to be replaced.
The DCSO, in the case of Winnti of a “mercenary force”, which should be close to the Chinese state. They keep an eye on the force very long, “so that we can tell from many indications, that the Winnti is a high probability of Chinese or Chinese-controlled,” said a DCSO spokesman.
Was Winnti hijacked in turn?
Against a Chinese man who used the same unusual nickname, is currently running a process due to computer-related crime in the United States. He is said to have used in an attack on a manufacturer of gas turbines, the malware from the Winnti. The U.S. investigators, in their indictment that the man was commissioned by the Chinese state.
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Many of the clues to China, are, however, already a few years old. The current, in part, to mid-2019-reaching attacks to the extent to which, hackers from the country technically assigned, is unclear. An employee of a German safety authority have warned that it is theoretically also possible, that other actors imitate the original Winnti group is aware of.
The Chinese foreign Ministry and the Chinese Embassy in Berlin made inquiries to Winnti unanswered. The Federal Ministry of the interior, declared on request of the Federal government, from the past few years, some of the Winnti-cases German companies are known. To wool each of the incidents you speak.
Still too blue-eyed?
In German companies, a certain amount of carelessness on the topic of Cyber-Crime seems to rule. In the beginning of July, published survey by the accounting firm KPMG, around 1000 companies, 39 percent stated that in the last two years of computer-related crime have been affected. 85 percent of the companies affected did not know who to put behind the attack. You will not be able to keep track of attacks effectively and educate. Thus, the risk go hand in hand, that offences remained undetected.
The amount of damage lying in the Mediterranean for up to 150,000 euros, says the study “E-Crime in the German economy in 2019”. However, there are also cases with much higher damage. Among the offences, such as the Manipulation of account and financial data, data theft, copyright infringement, damage to systems or extortion. Attacks on the systems, could cripple businesses over a longer period of time, what could be the company dearly.
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Employees are the biggest security gap
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The Human Factor
This would favor a lot of attacks due to carelessness of the employees, a lack of safety culture and a lack of understanding of Risk. “The human factor is the top enabling factor for E-Crime,” said KPMG Partner Michael Sauer man in front of journalists in Düsseldorf. In addition, the technology plays a large role, since they believe in more and more areas of the catchment.
In spite of the increasing danger, the willingness of companies to invest in the fight against E-Crime is. “Only about a quarter of respondents invest more than 50,000 euros.”
Him surprised, angry man that many companies felt, in particular in the SME sector, they are for hackers not interesting. In the middle class the majority of the companies in this country and stand for “Made in Germany”. Of course, products, data, and intellectual property in foreign countries interesting. This knowledge have fortunately increased in the past few years, but.