Restless does not doze the enemy

The Federal Intelligence Service of Germany (BND) and the Federal Department of Protection of the Constitution (Counterintelligence of the country) accused Moscow of manipulations aimed at undermining the close interaction of Europe with the United States. This is stated in the joint report presented by the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany, reports Der Spiegel.

According to the authors of the report, Moscow for many years purposefully tried to deepen the aggravation of social conflicts available in the West. As an example, the German special services give last year's story with the "girl Lisa". The Russian media then distributed the version that the girl was abducted and raped by Arab refugees. During the investigation, these messages were refuted .

After this incident, an investigation began by decree of the government, and the special services were required to analyze Russia's activity. Also, the BND and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution are investigating the circumstances of the massive attack of hackers on the computer system of the Bundestag in the spring of 2015, the report says.

According to the publication, the German government has not yet decided in what form to report on the results of the work of intelligence to the parliament and the public.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova called the "information carousel" to the German media attempts to return to the "Girls of Lisa". “As in the case of Trump’s dossier, promoted by the American media (CNN and BuzzFeed), it was the German media that reanimated the“ Lisa girl’s business. ”Then the official Berlin will say that Moscow intervenes in the elections. The“ Information Carousel is called, ”Zakharova wrote .

The attack on the Bundestag server was committed in May 2015. A virus was launched into the local network, which discovered hackers access to the internal documents of the German parliament. The fact that the server was hacked by the Kharacian group ART28 (other names Pawn Storm, Sofacy or Fancy Bear), which was closely related to the Russian special services, became known in January last year .

On January 7, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution confirmed Russia's involvement in the autumn attack on the server of the OSCE headquarters in Vienna. “Our analysis showed that the structural features of this attack are similar to those that are already familiar to us from other cyber attacks of the APT28 group, related to the attack on the German Bundestag,” said Hans -Georg Masen, head of the special services.

The massive attack on the headquarters of the OSCE in October-November became known on December 28 from the publication of the French Le Monde. The OSCE leadership informed about the incident of all 57 member states, but did not report him in the media.