Germany's lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, is under constant cyberattack and needs greater protection from hackers, according to Bundestag President Julia Klöckner, reported dpa.
"We are recording numerous hacker attacks – the Bundestag is a popular target," Klöckner told dpa in remarks for publication on Sunday.
"We will have to boost our capacity to resist against cyberattacks," she added. Klöckner's office is equivalent to that of speaker in many countries.
In May 2015, the largest cyberattack on the Bundestag to date was uncovered. Computers in the offices of a large number of Bundestag members had been infected with spyware, including the computers of Angela Merkel, the Christian Democrat chancellor at the time.
The IT systems of the entire Bundestag had to be overhauled.
Speaking on the basis of new evidence uncovered by the state prosecutor five years later, Merkel said there was "hard evidence" of Russian involvement. The European Union imposed sanctions on Russia.
The German government also accused a Russian military intelligence unit of being behind a 2023 cyberattack on email accounts at the party headquarters of the Social Democrats (SPD). Olaf Scholz was chancellor at the time, heading an SPD-led government.
The identity of the hackers behind a cyberattack on the CDU party headquarters a year later is still unknown.
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Source: www.dailyfinland.fi
