Germany Says Russia Will Face Consequences For 'Intolerable' Cyberattack

An anonymous reader shares a report: Relations between Russia and Germany were already tense, with Germany providing military support to Ukraine in its ongoing war with Russia. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Russian state hackers were behind a cyberattack last year that targeted the Social Democrats, the leading party in the governing coalition. 'Russian state hackers attacked Germany in cyberspace,' she said at a news conference in the Australian city of Adelaide. 'We can attribute this attack to the group called APT28, which is steered by the military intelligence service of Russia.'

'This is absolutely intolerable and unacceptable and will have consequences,' she said. The Russian Embassy in Germany on Friday denied Moscow was involved in a 2023 cyberattack. In a statement the embassy said its envoy 'categorically rejected the accusations that Russian state structures were involved in the given incident... as unsubstantiated and groundless.' The Council of the EU later said that Czechia's institutions have also been a target of the cyber campaign. In a statement by the EU's top diplomat, Josep Borrell, the bloc's nations said they 'strongly condemn the malicious cyber campaign conducted by the Russia-controlled Advanced Persistent Threat Actor 28 (APT28) against Germany and Czechia.' Further reading: EU and NATO Condemn Russian Cyber Attacks Against Germany and Czechia.

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