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The US State Department on Friday accused Russia of a malicious cyber attack on the European side, including Germany and the Czech Republic.
The United States strongly condemns the malicious cyber activities of the Russian General Staff’s GRU (GRU) group, also known as APT28, in Germany, Ukraine, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and elsewhere, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement.
APT28, also known as Fancy Bear, Strontium and Forest Blizzard, is a well-known threat actor with a long history of malicious, malicious, destabilizing and disruptive activities, he noted.
A State Department spokesman said the United States is linking the group to the 2016 election that brought Republican Donald Trump to power, and to operations targeting the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
Mr. Miller noted that Washington worked with Germany to fix a small-office/home-office router network where APT28 was used to hide and carry out malicious activities.
Earlier on Friday, Germany officially announced that APT28, a group linked to the Russian military intelligence service GRU, organized a cyber attack on members of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) last year.
A little later, Germany announced that it had summoned Russia’s provisional trustees over the incident.
For its part, the Russian embassy in Germany denies Berlin’s accusations that Moscow participated in last year’s cyber attack.
We request the embassy to point out that its envoy categorically rejects the accusations that Russian state structures were involved in the incident (…) as baseless and unsubstantiated.
At that time, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic announced that Prague had also repeatedly become the target of APT28’s cyber attacks.
The European Union has condemned a malicious cyber campaign against Germany and Europe blamed on Russia, and predicted that it would use a full range of measures in response. Russia’s harmful activities are also condemned by NATO.
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