“We can now clearly attribute the August 2024 cyber attack against the German Air Safety Agency to the hacker group APT28, also known as Fancy Bear.” “Secondly, we can now firmly state that Russia, by running the Storm 1516 campaign, sought to influence and destabilize the last federal elections,” said the spokesperson of the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs at a press conference.
The AFP news agency has not yet been able to contact the Russian embassy in Berlin for comment.
“(Germany-ELTA), in close cooperation with our European partners, will take a series of measures to make Russia pay for its hybrid actions,” the ministry’s spokesperson added.
Berlin would support “new individual sanctions against hybrid actors at the European level,” he said, but he did not elaborate on the possible sanctions.
States across Europe are currently paying close attention to suspected Russian espionage, drone surveillance and sabotage, cyber attacks and disinformation campaigns.
Germany is the second largest aid provider to Ukraine from 2022. in February Russia has launched large-scale invasions and has accused Moscow of “hybrid attacks”, including flying drones near various European airports in recent months.
