"It is a real cyberattack on parts of the government
system. It's an ongoing process, an ongoing attack," said Armin Schuster, chairman of the committee, adding that no further details could be given to avoid passing crucial information on to the attackers.
Quoting unnamed security sources, German news agency DPA reported Wednesday that the same group of Russian hackers blamed for hitting the German parliament's IT system in 2015 had now infiltrated a broader government network that includes the foreign and interior ministries.
It said the hacker group known as APT28—which has been linked to Russia's GRU military intelligence agency and accused of attacks on Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign—managed to plant malware in the ministries' networks for possibly as long as a year.
German security authorities only detected the online spying in December, the report said.
Konstantin von Notz, deputy of the committee, complained it was "completely unacceptable" that members of the oversight body only learnt of the attack through the media.
The government insisted the attack was being contained.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-03-cyberattack-german-ongoing.html#jCp
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