Persumed hacker attack on German politicians

22. September 2016

This week, heise-online reported that after last years attack on the German Parliament, this year on the 15th and 24th August the offices of several members of Parliament as well as their employees were targeted again in a new attack.

Emails containing malware were sent to the respective politicians. The Emails were supposedly sent by Heinrich Krammer working for the NATO-Headquarter.

The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) stated that the attacks probably originated from Russia. The BSI believes that the attacks might be linked to the hacking of private emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign team in the US earlier this year.

The BSI assumes that the hackers might have been looking for potentially damaging information which could be released a few weeks before elections next year in an attempt to influence the result.

 

Category: Data Breach · USA
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