Berlin’s highest court should completely rebuild its computer infrastructure after hackers ran roughshod through the network and likely stole data in the process, according to a forensic report released Monday. Poor security controls allowed the attackers to install two types of information-stealing malware last fall, said the study conducted by an IT subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom and released by German lawmakers investigating the incident. “A motivated attacker would have been able to use this network structure to infect almost every device,” the report states. The court, known as the Kammergericht in German, is the highest court for the city-state of Berlin. It handles criminal and terrorism cases with sensitive witness lists, which could be valuable data in the hands of a profit-seeking attacker. Sven Herpig, a cybersecurity expert with the German think tank SNV, pointed out that attackers are increasingly using data exfiltration as a means of holding victims hostage. […]
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