A spokesman for the German Interior Ministry, quoted by Agence France-Presse, said that experts from the Federal Administration for Security and Information Technology and the National Intelligence Service are “intensively participating in combating the attack.”
According to the same source, the nature of the attack reveals that it was carried out by a “highly professional” person, and investigators are now working to prevent further damage.
The German intelligence service intends to issue a warning to the political parties represented in Parliament later today.
The government source stressed that “our security services have strengthened protection measures against digital and hybrid threats, the importance of which we are witnessing again (…) before the elections.”
Before the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the Social Democratic Party (SPD), led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz, as well as several German companies, were victims of a cyberattack in 2023, carried out, according to German investigators, by a Russian group.
At the time, several email accounts belonging to SPD members were affected, according to the German ministry.
The APT28 group, led by Russian military intelligence services, has been blamed for dozens of cyberattacks in several countries.
One of the most famous incidents, attributed to Russian hackers, was the cyberattack in 2015, which paralyzed the computer network in the lower house of the German Parliament (Bundestag), leaving the entire institution offline for several days.
Russia has always denied responsibility for these attacks.
