Tuesday 4 April 2017

Hackers attempt to penetrate German Parliament Network



The largest German subscription daily newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung reports that "unidentified hackers have attempted to penetrate the German Parliament network".

Both the Federal Office for Information Technology (BSI) and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) have confirmed the attack.

The Bundestag's IT division was able to thwart this latest attack. Lawmakers have criticized the communication policy of the authorities responsible for this incident.

The attack was discovered "after a tipoff from the BfV". The infected computers had attempted to establish contact with a "potentially hazardous website." The connection was blocked for security reasons.

On March 28, The BSI said that it had now completed its analysis, but refused to comment on the results.

The targets included Marieluise Beck of the Green Party. Beck's disk image is also with the BSI. Beck said to Sueddeutsce Zeitung that "a BSI manager told me that they had discovered server connections with an Israeli news website".

Until now it is unclear whether the staff member had visited the real website or a fake version through which malware had been downloaded on to her computer.

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