‘This latest targeting ... is part of Russia’s wider effort aimed at finding ways to undermine European support for Ukraine,’ Mandiant’s Dan Black says
Elite hackers tied to Russian intelligence last month targeted several German political parties with an eye toward burrowing into their networks and stealing data, according to an alert released by Germany’s cybersecurity agency and security researchers working for Google owner Alphabet.
An alert circulated by Germany’s BSI cyber agency and reviewed by Reuters referred to the same incident, saying that state-backed cyber spies were targeting German political parties in an effort to build long-term access and exfiltrate data. “In this case, too, we received very prompt information about the attack,” the statement said. “There was no official CDU dinner on 1 March, the event was fictitious.”
The BSI said in its alert that foreign powers were particularly interested in spying on politicians in the context of the “upcoming European elections.” Mandiant said the targeting fit in with Moscow’s focus on its long-running conflict with Kyiv.
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