German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Friday said Berlin blames a unit of the Russian military intelligence service GRU for a 2023 cyber attack on the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD). \u201cRussian state hackers attacked Germany in cyberspace,\u201d Baerbock said in Adelaide during a visit to Australia, adding there would be consequences.<\/p>\n
In June 2023, the SPD, the dominant party in Germany\u2019s ruling coalition, said that email accounts belonging to its executive had been the target of a cyber attack earlier that year. According to the SPD, this was made possible by a security vulnerability in software which was not known at the time of the attack.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt cannot be ruled out that data was leaked from individual email inboxes,\u201d a SPD spokesperson said. According to Baerbock, the German government\u2019s investigation into the matter, led by the Foreign Office, has now been concluded. \u201cWe can now clearly attribute this attack from last year to the APT28 group, which is controlled by the Russian secret service GRU,\u201d said Baerbock. \u201cThis is completely unacceptable and will not be without consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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