Group loyal to Russia adopts an attack on the German government websites

Several sites, including Angela Merkel, were the targets, Wednesday morning, an attack claimed by a pro-Russian group.
The websites of Angela Merkel, the Chancellor and the Bundestag (lower house of parliament) are victims of piracy since mid-morning, said the spokesman for the Chancellor, Steffen Seibert. The Foreign Ministry's website was also temporarily affected by the attack. The action is claimed by a pro-Russian group hostile to the power of Kiev.
On its website, the Cyber-Berkut group claimed to have "blocked the websites of German Chancellor and the Bundestag" while Merkel must receive Thursday Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. "Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk hopes to obtain loans from several million from the EU and IMF," said the group on its website. He "needed money to extend the conflict and not to rebuild the destroyed infrastructure of our country." Hackers call "the people and the government of Germany to stop financial and political support the criminal regime of Kiev."

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"I can say that since about 10am today, web pages managed by the press service of the chancery are temporarily not accessible," said Steffen Seibert, adding that "the data processing center of our service provider is subject to a heavy attack whose origin is obviously an external system. »

"The goal is obviously to overload the attacked system, which practically means a judgment of the affected services. This is also the case for other pages managed by the data processing center as bundestag.de, "he said, without being able to confirm that the attack came from a Ukrainian group pro- Russian.

In August, Internet Berkut was also said to have blocked the websites of Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski and the Warsaw Stock Exchange. In the past, he had also targeted web pages of NATO, according to German news agency DPA, which recalls that in November, the group published on its website the documents presented as evoking secrets and military support of US government of Kiev. Cyber-Berkut was reported hacked documents during a visit to Kiev by US Vice President Joe Biden.