Germany’s BfV chief accuses Russia of cyberwarfare
May 14, 2016
Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has accused Russia of engaging in ongoing cyberwarfare. The aim, he said, is to steal information and to carry out sabotage against its enemies – both real and imagined.
On Friday Hans-Georg Maassen, the head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz/BfV), said that in the past year or so, Russia had launched attacks against the German parliament, NATO members and French TV. “Cyberspace is a place for hybrid warfare” Maassen said. “It opens a new space of operations for espionage and sabotage. The campaigns being monitored by the BfV are generally about obtaining information, that is spying” he said.