Germany says Russia probably behind cyber attack on Bundestag

[inanna]

Source: Reuters Canada

Fri May 13, 2016 7:37am EDT


BERLIN (Reuters) - Russian intelligence agencies were probably responsible for a massive cyber attack on Germany's lower house of parliament last year which forced its computer systems to be shut down for days, Germany's domestic intelligence agency said on Friday.

The agency, known as the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), said a hacker group known as "Sofacy" was behind the attack.

"The BfV has indications that it is being steered by the Russian state and has been monitoring it for years," the agency said in a statement.

The unusually strong comments come at a time when relations between Berlin and Moscow have sunk to their lowest point since the end of the Cold War following Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea and its intervention in Syria.


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[DetlefK]

1. Russia is clearly doing this to defend itself against evil NATO.

[Odin2005]

2. You forgot this:

[MattSh]

4. So, you're suggesting NATO is a force for good?

[uhnope]

5. the Kremlin would approve

assuming it didn't in fact literally do that

[Odin2005]

12. Better than Putin.

[MattSh]

13. Victim of MSM stupidity posing as news...

So sad. I would hope that Democrats would attempt to be more educated than Republicans, but I see every day that that is not true. Well, education IS hard!

[Odin2005]

14. I would hope that Democrats are smart enough not to fall for paid Russian propagandists.

[Blue_Tires]

3. I'm sure Snowden and Greenwald will be denouncing this momentarily...

lol

[uhnope]

6. that's harsh

but totally called for.

awesome post

[GummyBearz]

7. Why would either of them comment on supposedly Russian cyber attacks?

Snowden worked for the NSA, so he may have peripheral knowledge but that is very unlikely imo. He only knows what the NSA was doing a couple years ago

[uhnope]

8. Um because Snow-wald operate on the premise of the evil US NSA spying warlord star chamber while

doing patty-cake with the actual fascist spying gov of Russia

[GummyBearz]

9. Oh now it makes sense

Thanks for clearing things up. Usually foreign intelligence workers don't get access to the secrets of the country they defect to. But I can see how playing patty-cake would change that equation. Putin obviously would trust a known whistle blower with all of Russia's secrets after a game of patty-cake

[reACTIONary]

15. +10!

[GummyBearz]

10. I doubt it

Snowden and Greenwald publish truth. If it is true that Russians hacked German politicians, why would they denounce the finding?

[47of74]

11. Uh-oh, the Germans and the Russians are at it again...

....we all remember how well that worked out last time.