Germany Accused Russia Of Cyberattack And Attempted Election Interference

The Russian ambassador was summoned "on the carpet".

German authorities said that Russia tried to interfere in the parliamentary elections held in the country in 2024 and also launched attacks against an air traffic control center. In this regard, the Russian ambassador in Berlin, Sergey Nechayev, was summoned to the country's Interior Ministry, VSB reports.

A German Foreign Ministry spokesman said that the country's authorities "can now draw a clear link between the cyberattack against German aviation security in August 2024 and the hacker organization APT28, also known as Fancy Bear."

Western intelligence agencies say the Fancy Bear hacker group is a unit of the Russian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate.

"Secondly, we can definitely state that Russia, with the help of a campaign organized by the Storm 1516 group, tried to influence and destabilize the last federal election," a Foreign Ministry spokesman also said.

What is known about these groups

This year, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said that the Storm 1516 group also sought to influence the French parliamentary elections held in 2024.

This spring, Le Monde newspaper wrote that French authorities decided to start publicly exposing Russian online operations. At that time, they linked the hacking of Emmanuel Macron's election headquarters in 2017 and the cyberattack on the website of TV5 Monde in 2015 to GRU structural units.

The group has experience in creating staged videos featuring people impersonating Ukrainian soldiers.

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