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>Both the German parliamentary committee that oversees the intelligence agencies, and the digital committee scheduled extraordinary meetings to discuss the atta
by ryanlol 9y ago
>Both the German parliamentary committee that oversees the intelligence agencies, and the digital committee scheduled extraordinary meetings to discuss the attack on Thursday, according to parliamentary sources
This is basically all the information contained in the article, there are no details regarding the hack or it's target. Reuters says that German press is blaming APT28, i.e "Fancy Bear".
edit: Here's a German article with more details, citing "sources" http://www.dpa-international.com/topic/sources-foreign-hackers-infiltrate-german-government-data-180228-99-282593 http://www.dpa-international.com/topic/sources-foreign-hacke...
>The hack appears to have originated from the APT28 cyberespionage group
>The group used malicious software to target German federal agencies, including the foreign and defence ministries
>Hackers were able to steal data
>The infiltration likely lasted more than a year.
- joethebro 9y ago>The infiltration likely lasted more than a year. Wow, that's pretty significant... How was it only now they caught on?
- blattimwind 9y agoInfosec on federal and state level is generally regarded as very poor. Hardly unique to Germany, though.
- lostmsu 9y agoI would not say it is uncommon though. AFAIK intrusions into major companies like Google also happen to stay unnoticed for months.
- johannes1234321 9y agoThere are reports telling that the attackers were observed for some time and potentially got honeypots with insnsitige data served. However there are no formal reports published, so mostly rumors and speculation. The parliament's security council should receive a (non-public) report soon, only after full analysis there might be some public information released ...