The entire computer system in the German parliament has been hit by cyber attack. A spokesman for Merkel’s party CDU wanted nothing to say about the virus and that files of Merkel’s computer are captured.
The hackers, according to the newspaper e-mails sent from the email account of the Chancellor, reports German newspaper Bild am Sonntag . In those emails was a shortcut named “telephone consultation,” which resulted in fact that the virus was installed on the recipient’s computer.
MPs have been warned not to click on the link. Fifteen computers the virus, a Trojan horse, found. In five of those computers there is evidence that data has been captured by the hackers, the paper said.
A computer expert of the Bundestag said Thursday that the virus is still active. Possible to replace all computers of the Bundestag computer network.
The head of the German domestic intelligence Georg Maassen said Thursday that he is worried that “it is a cyber attack by a foreign intelligence service.” Magazine Der Spiegel says that experts have evidence that the Russian foreign intelligence service SVR behind it
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