Germany suspects Russian cyber attack on research group DW 04082025

pGerman intelligence services have said they are investigating a suspected Russian cyberattack against a Berlinbased research networkppIntelligence officials in Germany on Tuesday said they were probing a suspected Russian online attack on the German Association for East European Studies DGOppThe research group specializing in foreign policy and international relations is among several operating in Germany that Moscow has deemed undesirableppBoth Germanys Federal Office for Information Security BSI and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution BfV were said to be investigating and working on the case ppAccording to the German masscirculation newspaper Bild the attack had been traced back to hacker group APT 29 also known as Cozy BearppThe Kremlin hackers are also suspected of attacking several German political parties with malwareppThe DGO had made the attack public at the end of March saying that the hackers had gained access to email traffic ppExperts became suspicious when the academic associations mail server was accessed repeatedly from an IP address detected in a similar attack last yearppA DGO spokesman said as well as cyberattacks some German institutes deemed undesirable in Russia had faced stalking of employees and physical breakins at their Berlin headquarters

The DGOs computer security has been ramped up since last years attack the spokesman said However they added that it was difficult for a small organization to defend itself against sophisticated breaches ppTo view this video please enable JavaScript and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 videoppGerman security authorities recently sent letters warning of Russian cyberattacks to some 70 academic institutionsppEdited by Louis Oelofsep