FRG MFA accused the Ghostwriter hacker group from Russia in kiberataks to politicians and parties before elections to the Bundestag and local German parliaments. The hackers are Russian intelligence, the representative of the foreign policy department of Andrea Zass stated at the briefing. This is reported by TASS.
“The FRG government has reliable information, on the basis of which it is possible to conclude that the Russian state is worth the activities of Ghostwriter, and specifically,” said Cassus, adding that the German side called for the Russian “immediately put an end to this Activities. The statements of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sounded after a bilateral meeting of the High-Level Working Group on Security Policy.
NTV Edition reported that this year already at least three waves of foreign hackers attacks on politicians and workers of German political institutions were recorded.
In early September, US President Joe Biden passed that it expects Moscow actions in the field of cybersecurity. In the White House also noted that there was a decrease in the number of cyberactoctacks with the requirement of redemption and expect to consolidate this trend.