German minister warns of ‘massive’ danger from Russian hackers


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Germany’s interior minister has warned of a “massive danger” facing Germany from Russian sabotage, disinformation and spying attacks. Nancy Faeser said Vladimir Putin was putting huge resources into cyber-attacks as a key part of his war of aggression. “The cybersecurity concerns have been exacerbated by the war. The attacks of pro-Russia hackers have increased,” she said in an interview with the news network Funke Mediengruppe published on Sunday. The danger of state-sponsored and state-steered spying and sabotage activities remained very high, Faeser said. She called on the federal and regional governments to work together to fend off cyber-attacks and to...