confirms Russian authorship of the computer attack

One of the very few questions that have not addressed the health crisis, in the parliamentary control session to which Chancellor Angela Merkel was subjected today , was interested in the results of the investigation that the German State Attorney General has led to out about the computer attack that the Bundestag suffered in 2015 . And the German chancellor has spoken of "conclusive evidence" about Russian authorship and of some facts that are "outrageous".

 there is very tangible evidence that the Russian forces do that, " he agreed to the full German parliamentarian. "Hybrid warfare is part of Russia's strategy," explained the German chancellor, acknowledging that this fact does not facilitate relations with Russia. "Of course, we always reserve the right to take action, even against Russia," he said of possible sanctions.

Investigators in Karlsruhe are blamed by various German media outlets for the Russian military secret service GRU for the large-scale cyber attack on the Bundestag that took place in 2015. The Federal Prosecutor's Office has issued an international arrest warrant against a young russian hacker named Dimitri Badin, a Kursk native, after years of investigation, accused of secret service activities and spying on data in Germany. The suspect is currently in Russia. The same man has long been sought by the US FBI for having been involved in hacker attacks on the Democratic Party during the 2016 presidential election campaign, as well as against the global anti-doping agency Wada and other cyber attacks.

The cyberattack to which the parliamentary question referred was known on May 8, 2015.

While the plenary of the Bundestag listened to a speech on "the liberation of the Nazi tyranny", the IT managers detected that a virus had penetrated some computers in the Lower Houseof the German Parliament. He had entered the system on April 30 of that same year, through an email that several parliamentarians received simultaneously and whose subject was "Ukraine's conflict with Russia leaves the economy in ruins." The sender's address ended in "@ un.org", apparently linked to the UN. The text contained a link to an alleged report that, when opened, downloaded malware, a malicious computer virus, to the device that allows it to attack a computer system without the user's knowledge. The attacker had access to the Parliament's computer system, consisting of 5,600 computersand more than 12,000 associated accounts. On May 20, after three weeks of a continuous computer attack, the situation was considered controlled, after the leak of at least 16 gigabytes of information, including tens of thousands of confidential emails.

German intelligence would later confirm that it was "a highly sophisticated attack by a secret service." The then head of espionage in the interior of the country, Hans Georg Massen, pointed in the same direction. It was necessary to renew more than 20,000 computers that the system has and the costs amounted to hundreds of millions of euros.

German intelligence claims to have proof that Badin used the malware through the VSC.exe file, with precise information on what day and at what exact time he accessed the Bundestag computer team through it. Badin, who was then 24 years old, is linked to the GRU Unit 26165, specialized in cyberspace . The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BFV) already indicated Russia in 2016 as the perpetrator of the cyber attack, although the Kremlim has at all times denied any relation to these events.

The activity of the Russian secret services in Germany is not limited to data espionage. Still very recent in the collective memory of the German capital is murder in cold blood, in broad daylight and in a park, next to a busy shopping center, by a Georgian of Chechen origin, a murder also attributed to Russian services.