The Russians' cyber shock to the Germans

EviralnewsWhile Germany, France and some other members of the North Atlantic Treaty have continued to take a threat-oriented approach towards Russia and have even supported the confiscation of Russian property in European countries for the benefit of Ukraine, Moscow has preferred to be less public in its positions. These actions answer!

Most analysts of political and security issues in Europe believe that Russia has put measures such as precise and destructive cyber and hacking attacks against targets in the green continent in response to NATO's interventionism. In one of the latest alleged cases, Germany's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Germany's internal security organization) reported cyber attacks on the website of the Christian Democratic Party of Germany (CDU).

This hacker attack, which occurred a week before the European Parliament elections, has been considered “very serious” by German government circles.

According to this report, security officials believe that the perpetrator of these attacks was “very professional”. It is not yet clear whether these attacks also targeted sensitive data.

In this context, one of the spokespersons of the Christian Democratic Party stated that parts of the IT (information technology) infrastructure were offline and protected as a preventive measure. But the party's website at cdu.de was still available.

According to the announcement of German government circles, “Nancy Fesser” the Minister of the Interior from the Social Democratic Party (SPD) has discussed with “Friedrich Mertes” the head of the Christian Democratic Party of Germany.

The heads of both traditional German parties, the Social Democrats and the Christian Democrats, believe that such an action was carried out by the same source, Russia. The officials of the Kremlin palace have not taken a position in confirming or denying this claim and have simply passed by it!

The Christian Democratic Party has also announced that this party is seriously communicating with the country's security organizations and security experts following this cyber attack.

The German government has declared a Russian military intelligence unit responsible for this cyber attack, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of this country summoned a high-ranking Russian diplomat at the beginning of May and suspended the German ambassador to Russia, Alexander Graf, for a period of one year. Week called to Berlin for consultation. However, Russia will definitely not accept responsibility for this cyber attack. More importantly, a number of German companies active in logistics, weapons, aerospace and information technology services were also victims of this attack.

According to experts, this attack was made possible by an unknown security gap in Microsoft software.

It is not yet clear what information and data was stolen during this hacker attack, but some security and political sources in Germany say that not only the confidential information of users, but also the minutes of many meetings of the Christian Democratic Party and also some documents related to the leaders of this party in this A hacker attack is in the hands of the attacker.