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Report: APT28 breached German foreign and defense ministries

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Hackers believed to be tied to the Russian government successfully compromised the networks of the German defense and foreign ministries in at attack that may have lasted for a year, German news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported Wednesday. Citing unnamed officials, the news agency reported that APT28 used malware to steal data from the government agencies, but the extent of the impact is unclear. Another German outlet, Deutsche Welle, reports that the hackers infiltrated a specially designed network used by the government to keep communications secure and separate. German press claim that that the BSI and BfV intelligence agencies are investigating the breach. APT28, commonly known as FancyBear, has been blamed by both private cybersecurity companies and U.S. intelligence agencies for carrying out attacks that target governments and political entities. Most notably, the group is known for obtaining and then leaking private information from Democratic National Commission in the 2016 U.S. election. More recently, the […]

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Germany contradicts U.S. suspicions about Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky

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German cybersecurity authorities said on Wednesday that they have not seen evidence that Russians used Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab products to spy on U.S. authorities. The statement, first reported by Reuters, challenges the narrative that Russia is using the company’s antivirus software to spy on U.S. government employees who run the company’s products on their own computers. Germany’s BSI, or Federal Office for Information Security, said it doesn’t warn against using Kaspersky products because it has no evidence of wrongdoing by the Russian company or weaknesses in its software. Kaspersky has been under scrutiny recently as U.S. officials have suspected that the Moscow-based company’s software is being used by the Kremlin to spy on the U.S. The New York Times reported Tuesday that Israeli intelligence officers found evidence on Kaspersky’s networks that Russian hackers used Kaspersky anti-virus software to search for information about U.S. intelligence programs. That effort successfully found sensitive documents improperly stored on an NSA […]

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