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ELITE RUSSIAN HACKERS TARGETING GERMAN POLITICIANS, GOOGLE WARNS

By Christopher Bing and Raphael Satter

Mar 25 2024 6:30AM



VIA APT29.

Elite hackers tied to Russian intelligence last month targeted several German
political parties with an eye toward burrowing into their networks and stealing
data, according to an alert released by Germany's cyber security agency and
security researchers working for Mandiant.



In a report, Mandiant said it had caught the hacking group known as APT29, which
is alleged by Western intelligence to act on behalf of Russia's SVR foreign spy
agency, trying to trick "key German political figures" into opening an email
masquerading as an invitation to a March 1 dinner event hosted by the Christian
Democratic Union (CDU), Germany's centre-right political party.

An alert circulated by Germany's BSI cyber agency and reviewed by Reuters
referred to the same incident, saying that state-backed cyber spies were
targeting German political parties in an effort to build long-term access and
exfiltrate data.



In a statement, the CDU said it had long been exposed to digital attacks from
domestic and foreign actors.

"In this case, too, we received very prompt information about the attack," the
statement said. "There was no official CDU dinner on 1 March, the event was
fictitious."



The alert did not give further details on who was believed to be responsible and
neither it nor Mandiant provided details on who specifically was targeted. The
BSI did not immediately return a request for comment.

The Russian embassy in Washington also did not immediately respond to an email
requesting comment.

The BSI said in its alert that foreign powers were particularly interested in
spying on politicians in the context of the "upcoming European elections."
Mandiant said the targeting fit in with Moscow's focus on its long-running
conflict with Kyiv.

"This latest targeting is not just about going after Germany or its politicians;
it is part of Russia's wider effort aimed at finding ways to undermine European
support for Ukraine," Mandiant's Dan Black said in a statement.

Germany is among the Western nations that have provided military support for
Ukraine in its war with Russia. In December, Russian President Vladimir Putin
said relations between the Berlin and Moscow have remained largely frozen.



Germany's Der Spiegel first reported on the alleged hacking campaign earlier on
Friday.

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