APT28, an infamous cyber-espionage unit that many security firms believe is acting at the behest of the Russian government, has hacked various German government agencies for more than a year.
According to German news agency dpa, Russian hackers infiltrated computers on the network of the German Foreign Ministry, the German Defence Ministry, the German Chancellery, and the Federal Court of Auditors.
The German Interior Ministry confirmed the hack earlier this week. Officials said they detected the intrusion in December and had been investigating what and how many systems the hackers accessed. Evidence suggests the group had access for almost a year.
New APT28 attacks target European, North American countries
The attacks are not included in a report Kaspersky Lab released last week, detailing APT28's activity.
Yesterday, US cyber-security firm Palo Alto released a separate report on recent APT28 attacks that targeted European and North American countries.
These attacks, in the form of spear-phishing emails imitating Jane’s (news and information supplier for the defense and government sectors), are more recent (began in early February 2018) and don't seem to be related to last year's attacks on Germany
