Cyber attack on Bundestag infects Merkel office computer: Report
A recent cyber-attack that hit the lower house of the German parliament also affected one of the computers in German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office in the legislative body, a new report says.
The Bild newspaper said on Sunday that the cyber attack that hit the Bundestag in May also “infected” a computer system in Merkel’s office in the lower house of the German parliament.
The affected computer in Merkel’s Bundestag office, the newspaper said, was one of the first computers on which the Trojan Horse-style attack was discovered.
It is not still clear who has been behind the cyber attack. A spokesman for Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Party has meanwhile told the newspaper he could neither confirm nor deny the report.
German media reported on June 10 that the May cyber attack on the Bundestag is still stealing data, and officials may be forced to spend several millions of euros on replacing the entire computer system there, which could take months.
“The Trojans are still active,” the online edition of news magazine Der Spiegel quoted an unnamed parliamentary source as saying. Trojan attacks trick users into installing software that can steal data from their computers.
Back in January, German government websites, including that of Chancellor Merkel, were brought down in an attack claimed by a pro-Russia group from Ukraine calling itself CyberBerkut.
“We appeal to the German people and government to stop the financial and political support for the criminal Kiev regime,” the group said in a statement.
Germany is one of the European countries supporting the Ukrainian government against pro-Russia forces in the east of Ukraine.
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