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BRUSSELS – Germany on Friday accused Russian military agents of hacking the top echelons of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party and other sensitive government and industrial targets, and was joined by NATO and fellow European countries in warning that Russia’s cyberespionage would have consequences.
The statement said international efforts led by the FBI shut down in late January a botnet of compromised network devices used by the Russian hackers – known as APT28 or Fancy Bear – in the cyberespionage scheme. A separate German statement said the hacking occurred over “a relatively long period” and also targeted various unidentified German government authorities, foundations and associations. It said the Social Democrats’ executive committee was targeted.The Council of the EU and the Czech Foreign Ministry said Czechia’s institutions have also been targeted by the same group. Both German and Czech officials said the GRU hackers leveraged a previously unknown vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook.
NATO accused Fancy Bear of targeting “other national governmental entities, critical infrastructure operators and other entities across the Alliance,” including in Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Sweden.
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