Germany and the Czech Republic blamed a series of cyberattacks on Russia in a new public allegation backed by NATO allies and the European Union.
“We can attribute this cyberattack to a group called APT28, which is steered by the military intelligence service of Russia,” German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock told reporters on Friday. “This is absolutely intolerable and unacceptable and will have consequences.”
“In the context of the upcoming European elections, national elections in a number of European countries and the ongoing Russian aggression against Ukraine, these acts are particularly serious and reprehensible,” the Czech foreign ministry said. “Cyber attacks targeting political entities, state institutions and critical infrastructure are not only a threat to national security, but also disrupt the democratic processes on which our free society is based.
In March, a Google-owned cybersecurity firm called Mandiant announced an assessment that another Russian intelligence service, the SVR, sent “phishing emails … to victims purporting to be an invite to a dinner reception” hosted by a different German political party, the Christian Democratic Union. “We join Germany in attributing specific malign activity carried out by APT28 that targeted a German political party,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said Friday. “The U.S. Department of Justice has worked with Germany to remediate a network of hundreds of small office/home office routers that APT28 was using to conceal and carry out malicious activity. … The DOJ action further blocked the GRU from regaining access to remediated devices.
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