Bundestag elections to be held on September 26
–
–
The Ghostwriter hacker group is acting on the instructions of the Russian special services, according to the FRG authorities.
The German authorities demanded that Russia immediately stop the operational subversive cyber activities of the hacker group Ghostwriter in the country on the eve of the elections to the Bundestag. This was stated by the official representative of the German Foreign Ministry Andrea Sasse at a press conference on Monday, September 6.
“The German government has reliable information on the basis of which the actions of the Ghostwriter can be attributed to the operations of the Russian state, and specifically, the Russian military intelligence service GRU (General Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Army – ed.),” Said Sasse.
She noted that the German special services have been tracking the work of hackers operating under the name Ghostwriter for several years. According to Sasse, the group combines conventional cyberattacks with disinformation and influence operations. And for some time now in Berlin they began to notice an intensified orientation of such actions towards Germany.
“In Germany, on the eve of the elections to the Bundestag, attempts were made – including through phishing attacks – to gain access to the passwords of members of the Bundestag and the state parliaments in order to steal their personal data,” Sasse said. with the upcoming elections “.
Berlin has no doubts that the official Russian authorities are behind the actions of the Ghostwriter hacker group, and demand an immediate end to cyber sabotage, which they see as a “threat to the security of the Federal Republic and the process of democratic expression of will” in the upcoming elections.
The demand of the German authorities was also transferred directly to the responsible persons in Russia. In particular, during the last meeting of the German-Russian working group on security policy on September 2 and 3, during which the State Secretary at the Foreign Ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany Miguel Berger met with the First Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Titov. Berlin, Sasse added, reserves the right to take additional protection measures.
As a reminder, in March the media reported about the hacking of Angela Merkel’s party in the Bundestag hackers from Russia. The computers of at least seven deputies were cyberattacked.
A source: Deutsche Welle Russian Service
News from Correspondent.net in Telegram. Subscribe to our channel https://t.me/korrespondentnet
– .
