German defence ministry ‘hacked by Russia’

Berlin says attackers infiltrated Germany’s IVBB communications network

Germany admits cyber security breach by ‘Russian hackers’
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Germany has admitted that its foreign and defence ministries fell victim to a cybersecurity breach, reportedly carried out by Russian hacking group APT28, also known as Fancy Bear.

Two years ago, security analyst Dmitri Alperovitch of Crowdstrike told the Christian Science Monitor he had “high level confidence” that Fancy Bear was a Russian state intelligence agency. The same group is accused of hacking email accounts belonging to the Clinton campaign during the 2016 US presidential election.

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