The Federal Information Security Agency and Germany's domestic intelligence agency said they had worked together to prevent a cyber attack on European Commission President von der Leyen's Christian Democratic Union party.
German security investigators responded to a serious cyber attack on European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) on June 1, days before the European Parliament (EP) elections.
According to a spokesman for the German Interior Ministry, experts at the German Federal Information Security Agency and the German Domestic Intelligence Agency actively coordinated to prevent the attack.
“Our security agencies have enhanced their protections against digital and hybrid threats,” the spokesperson said. It is not yet clear how much damage was caused by the cyberattack.
A year ago, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democratic Party (SPD) and several companies in the country were also targeted by cyber attacks.
The German Interior Ministry said at the time that several SPD employee email accounts had been compromised. Investigators suspect the APT28 hacker group was behind the attacks.
APT28, also known as Fancy Bear, has been accused of carrying out dozens of cyber attacks in countries around the world.
TB (according to VNA)