Germany Thwarts Cyberattack, Denies Impact on Banking System

German authorities thwarted a cyberattack on a data service provider used by federal agencies and pushed back on a report that a broad assault targeted critical infrastructure and banks. From a report: The attempt was quickly dealt with and impact on service was "very marginal," Interior Ministry spokesman Steve Alter told reporters on Wednesday, adding that it was likely criminally motivated. He was queried about a report by Bild newspaper, which cited unidentified intelligence sources saying that a hacker group linked to the Kremlin had carried out an attack on German infrastructure and the country's banking system. Bild identified the group as "Fancy Lazarus" after earlier referencing "Fancy Bear," a group controlled by Russia's GRU military intelligence agency that was behind the hacking of Hillary Clinton's staff before the 2016 election, according to a 2018 U.S. Department of Justice indictment. Authorities haven't detected an increase in cyber activities in recent days, Alter said.

No Involvement

[lazarus]

For the record I had nothing to do with this. I am in no way fancy...

But Biden gave a no-hack list to Putin?

[schwit1]

What gives? Didn't it work when Obama told Putin to cut it out [politico.com]?
In other news ... https://cdn.locals.com/images/... [locals.com]

AAAND German banking

[atol]

The German banking is a Potemkin set, with the whole country's economy in shambles and everyone acting on a theatrical play of 'everything's fine, nothing to see here, move along' and on the flip side the Germans want to destroy everything except they hit them self with that option.