In the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Germany did not confirm the information on the expected cyber of hackers from Russia to the infrastructure of the country. Information is not enough yet, a representative of the department spoke at the briefing. This is reported by TASS.
“media messages are known to us. Competent law enforcement agencies have not yet information about whether a large-scale hacker attack had a place,” the Russian agency leads his words. An employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs confirmed that a criminal DDoS attack was occurred on one of the web service providers, it was possible to reflect it.
Earlier on the same day, the BILD newspaper, with reference to sources in intelligence, accused Russian hackers in a new large-scale kiberatka for infrastructure and banking systems of Germany.
According to the publication, the kiberataks are associated with the Russian authorities grouping of the Fancy Bear hackers. Bild claims that Moscow will thus steamers for the sanction policy against Russia and seeks to prevent tightening restrictions against Belarus.
On June 26, Microsoft reported on the new attack of the hacker group Nobelium, which is allegedly related to Russia. According to the company, cybercriminals attacked IT companies, government agencies, analytical centers and financial services. They focused their attack on the USA, Great Britain, Germany, Canada and other countries.
Recently, Berlin has already accused Moscow in involvement in kiberats on the country’s state structure. In March 2021, the German newspaper Spiegel wrote that German special services announced the attack of the Ghostwriter hackers at seven deputies of the Bundestag and 31 deputies of land parliaments. The German side argued that the actions of the attackers were led by the Russian special services of the General Directorate of the General Staff (GRU). Moscow accusations refuted.