Germany’s Bundestag President Klöckner was targeted in a Signal phishing attack via a fake CDU group chat. Germany’s Bundestag President Julia Klöckner has reportedly become the latest European political figure targeted through a Signal-based phishing attack, reported Der Spiegel. The incident is another reminder that even trusted messaging apps can become entry points when attackers…
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How Phishing Is Targeting Germany’s Economy: Active Threats from Finance to Manufacturing
Germany’s economy is a precision machine: finance fuels it, manufacturing builds it, telecom connects it, IT optimizes it, and healthcare sustains it. The country sits at the crossroads of industrial power and digital transformation, making it irresistibly attractive to attackers. In this article, we explore real-world attacks targeting five critical German industries, analyzed by ANY.RUN’s analysts using Interactive…
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BKA Identifies REvil Leaders Behind 130 German Ransomware Attacks
Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (aka BKA or the Bundeskriminalamt) has unmasked the real identity of the main threat actors associated with the now-defunct REvil (aka Sodinokibi) ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation. The threat actor, who went by the alias UNKN, functioned as a representative of the group, advertising the ransomware in June 2019 on the XSS…
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Qilin ransomware group claims the hack of German political party Die Linke
Qilin ransomware claims it stole data from Germany’s Die Linke and threatens to leak it; the party confirmed the incident, but not a breach. The Qilin ransomware group claims it stole data from Die Linke, a German political party, and is threatening to release it. Die Linke is a left-wing political party in Germany. Its…
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Germany’s national rail operator Deutsche Bahn hit by a DDoS attack
Germany’s national rail operator, Deutsche Bahn, suffered a major DDoS attack that disrupted booking and information systems for several hours. Germany’s rail operator Deutsche Bahn was hit by a large-scale DDoS attack that disrupted information and booking systems for several hours. The cyberattack affected IT operations, causing delays and service interruptions. At this time, the…
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German Agencies Warn of Signal Phishing Targeting Politicians, Military, Journalists
Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (aka Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz or BfV) and Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) have issued a joint advisory warning of a malicious cyber campaign undertaken by a likely state-sponsored threat actor that involves carrying out phishing attacks over the Signal messaging app. “The focus is on…
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Germany warns of Signal account hijacking targeting senior figures
Germany’s domestic intelligence agency is warning of suspected state-sponsored threat actors targeting high-ranking individuals in phishing attacks via messaging apps like Signal. […]