{"id":2236632,"date":"2024-05-03T15:41:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T19:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nato-allies-blame-russia-for-particularly-serious-and-reprehensible-cyberattacks\/"},"modified":"2024-05-03T15:45:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T19:45:11","slug":"nato-allies-blame-russia-for-particularly-serious-and-reprehensible-cyberattacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nato-allies-blame-russia-for-particularly-serious-and-reprehensible-cyberattacks\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO allies condemn Russia for &#8216;serious and reprehensible&#8217; cyberattacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnato-allies-blame-russia-for-particularly-serious-and-reprehensible-cyberattacks%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2236632&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The hacking group associated\u200d with Russia&#8217;s military \u200dintelligence \u2064launched cyberattacks on German Chancellor \u200bOlaf Scholz&#8217;s political party and\u200d Czech institutions, \u200bleading to strong \u2064condemnation from\u2062 NATO and Western officials. The group, known as APT28 or Fancy Bear, exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft Outlook, sparking concerns about democracy and national \u200csecurity. The cyber threat extends to European and Western political entities, with historical targeting patterns indicating a broad risk.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A hacking group associated with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Russia<\/a>\u2019s military intelligence agency attacked German Chancellor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Olaf-Scholz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Olaf Scholz<\/a>\u2019s political party and \u201csome Czech institutions,\u201d according to Western officials and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/NATO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>NATO<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can attribute this cyberattack to a group called APT28, which is steered by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alleged-russian-spy-worked-for-u-s-government-news-agency\/\" title=\"Alleged Russian Spy Worked For U.S. Government News Agency\">military intelligence service<\/a> of Russia,\u201d German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock told reporters on Friday. \u201cThis is absolutely intolerable and unacceptable and will have consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russia denied the allegation \u201cas another unfriendly step aimed at fueling anti-Russian sentiment in Germany,\u201d but Baerbock\u2019s rebuke found an echo in Prague and across the NATO alliance. The hacking organization, known in Western circles as Fancy Bear or APT28, \u201cexploit[ed] a previously unknown vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook from 2023\u201d in a sprawling operation, according to Czech officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the context of the upcoming European elections, national elections in a number of European countries and the ongoing Russian aggression against Ukraine, these acts are particularly serious and reprehensible,\u201d the Czech <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tensions-flare-between-china-india-after-clashes-at-himalayan-border\/\" title=\"Tensions flare between China, India after clashes at Himalayan border\">foreign ministry<\/a> said. \u201cCyber attacks targeting political entities, state institutions and critical infrastructure are not only a threat to national security, but also disrupt the democratic processes on which our free society is based.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, right, talks to Defense Minister Boris Pistorius prior to the weekly cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (AP Photo\/Markus Schreiber)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In March, a Google-owned cybersecurity firm called Mandiant announced an assessment that another Russian intelligence service, the SVR, sent \u201cphishing emails \u2026 to victims purporting to be an invite to a dinner reception\u201d hosted by a different German political party, the Christian Democratic Union.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on the SVR\u2019s responsibility to collect political intelligence and this APT29 cluster\u2019s historical targeting patterns, we judge this activity to present a broad threat to European and other Western political parties from across the political spectrum,\u201d Mandiant said, noting that the malicious program \u201cwas first observed in operational use in late January 2024 in an operation targeting likely diplomatic entities in Czechia, Germany, India, Italy, Latvia, and Peru.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>APT28, the GRU-linked entity, is the same one that U.S. officials have blamed for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2366974\/wikileaks-releases-thousands-of-new-john-podesta-emails\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>targeting<\/a> of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign chairman in the 2016 presidential election. The cyberattacks in question occurred in 2023, but the allegation comes several months after Russia embarrassed Scholz\u2019s government by releasing a recording of a phone conversation between German military officials who discussed, on an unsecured line, plans for a possible delivery of long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe join Germany in attributing specific malign activity carried out by APT28 that targeted a German political party,\u201d State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said Friday. \u201cThe U.S. Department of Justice has worked with Germany to remediate a network of hundreds of small office\/home office routers that APT28 was using to conceal and carry out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-unveils-new-cybersecurity-push-amid-rising-threats-from-china-and-russia\/\" title=\"Biden Unveils New Cybersecurity Push Amid Rising Threats From China And Russia\">malicious activity<\/a>. \u2026 The DOJ action further blocked the GRU from regaining access to remediated devices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>German officials summoned the top Russian envoy in Berlin to the foreign ministry to protest the attack, but Russia \u201cexpressly rejected the accusation\u201d in a subsequent statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Embassy regards this demarche by the Foreign Office as another unfriendly step aimed at stoking anti-Russian sentiments in Germany and further destroying Russian-German relations,\u201d the embassy insisted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The same Russian spy team also has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russian-media-confirms-death-of-top-general-andrei-sukhovetsky-by-ukrainian-military\/\" title=\"Russian Media Confirms Death of Top General Andrei Sukhovetsky by Ukrainian Military\">attacked targets<\/a> in several other countries \u2014 Poland, Lithuania, Slovakia, and Sweden \u2014 across NATO and the European Union, Western officials agreed on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe strongly condemn malicious cyber activities intended to undermine our democratic institutions, national security and free society,\u201d the North Atlantic Council, which is the assembly of alliance ambassadors at NATO headquarters in Brussels, said Friday. \u201cThe malicious cyber activities targeting Germany and Czechia underscore that cyberspace is contested at all times. Cyber threat actors persistently seek to destabilize the Alliance.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hacking group linked to Russia\u2019s military intelligence targeted German Chancellor Olaf Scholz&#8217;s party and Czech institutions, as confirmed by Western officials and NATO. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock identified the group APT28, guided by Russia&#8217;s military intelligence, as responsible for the cyberattack, revealing these details to reporters on Friday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2743,"featured_media":2236633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/germany-baerbock-pistorius-1024x683.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2236632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/germany-baerbock-pistorius-1024x683.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2743"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2236632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2236633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2236632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2236632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2236632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}