A German government investigation, led by the Foreign Ministry, found that Russian hackers with state support targeted the Social Democratic Party in the governing coalition.
A German government investigation, led by the Foreign Ministry, found that Russian hackers with state support targeted the Social Democratic Party in the governing coalition.
Germany accused Russia's military intelligence service, the GRU, on Friday of being behind a 2023 cyberattack that targeted the Social Democrats (SPD).
In June 2023, the SPD announced that cybercriminals had targeted email accounts belonging to its executives earlier that year.
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"Today we can say unambiguously... we can attribute this cyber attack to a group called APT28, which is steered by the military intelligence service of Russia," she told a news conference during a visit to Australia.
APT28 is also known as Fancy Bear and is controlled by Russia's GRU military intelligence service. It has been accused of dozens of cyberattacks around the world.