Hackers managed to install a virus, by means of which a few months penetrated deeper into the network undetected parliament – writes “Sueddeutsche Zeitung”. Then they broke into the hub system linking all 20 thousand. Bundestag computers.
To inform the German media, cyber attack has not yet been mastered. The situation is exacerbated by the fact that hackers gained in the meantime administrator rights. “In this situation, you try to repel the attack are virtually meaningless,” – said “SZ” persons taking a direct part in efforts to neutralize the attack.
Sensitive data from computers MPs may continue to flow out. The experts concluded that there was to copy data from at least five servers. Three of them belong to the deputies of the ruling CDU, two to the opposition of the Left.
“SZ” writes that about hackers and their motives, nothing is known. Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Federal Office of Information Technology Security (BSI) suspect that behind the attack is either from Eastern European special services. “Der Spiegel” claims cyber attack is doing the Russian foreign intelligence service SWR.
The total exchange network would take several months and would be very costly.
As writes “Der Spiegel”, opposition MPs do not trust the German foreign intelligence and do not want to share their computers BND employees.
Petra Pau of the Left MEP, head of the parliamentary commission for. IT, said in May that the Bundestag became the object of a cyber attack on an unprecedented scale.
In January during the visit of Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk CyberBerkut hacker group attacked the websites of the German government. Cyberberkut sympathizes with Russia President Vladimir Putin. BSI last year recorded a 15 to 20 attacks per day on the computer network of the German government.
From Berlin Jacek Lepiarz
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