>Both the German parliamentary committee that oversees the intelligence agencies, and the digital committee scheduled extraordinary meetings to discuss the attack on Thursday, according to parliamentary sources
This is basically all the information contained in the article, there are no details regarding the hack or it's target. Reuters says that German press is blaming APT28, i.e "Fancy Bear".
There are reports telling that the attackers were observed for some time and potentially got honeypots with insnsitige data served.
However there are no formal reports published, so mostly rumors and speculation. The parliament's security council should receive a (non-public) report soon, only after full analysis there might be some public information released ...
What would you find convincing? Any stream of bits released could be falsified. The library of used vulnerabilities or malware techniques is not something I would expect any national level security agency to release.
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[ 0.29 ms ] story [ 41.4 ms ] threadThis is basically all the information contained in the article, there are no details regarding the hack or it's target. Reuters says that German press is blaming APT28, i.e "Fancy Bear".
edit: Here's a German article with more details, citing "sources" http://www.dpa-international.com/topic/sources-foreign-hacke...
>The hack appears to have originated from the APT28 cyberespionage group
>The group used malicious software to target German federal agencies, including the foreign and defence ministries
>Hackers were able to steal data
>The infiltration likely lasted more than a year.
Wow, that's pretty significant... How was it only now they caught on?
However there are no formal reports published, so mostly rumors and speculation. The parliament's security council should receive a (non-public) report soon, only after full analysis there might be some public information released ...