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Germany says Russians behind ‘intolerable’ cyber-attack last year

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 5 days ago - 08:28

Foreign minister says investigation found Fancy Bear group was behind attack that took down several websites

Germany has said it has evidence that Russian state-sponsored hackers were behind an “intolerable” cyber-attack last year in which several websites were knocked off line in apparent response to Berlin’s decision to send tanks to Ukraine.

The German foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, said a federal government investigation into the 2023 cyber-attack on the Social Democrat party (SPD) had just concluded.

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Foreign Office summons senior Chinese diplomat over ‘malicious cyber-activity’

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 26 March - 18:06

Beijing’s chargé d’affaires told UK government will not tolerate threatening cyber-attacks which it unequivocally condemns

Ministers summoned a senior Chinese diplomat to the Foreign Office on Tuesday after accusing Beijing-backed hackers of a cyber-attack on the British elections watchdog and a surveillance operation on politicians .

The department called in China’s chargé d’affaires and told him the UK would not tolerate “threatening” cyber-attacks.

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Labour tells China it will act on interference in UK democracy

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 25 March - 17:57

Exclusive: Warning came at party’s first public meeting with Chinese government since Keir Starmer became Labour leader

Labour has warned China that it will respond to any interference in UK democracy after the government announced fresh sanctions against hackers linked to Beijing.

The warning came at the party’s first public meeting with the Chinese government since Keir Starmer became Labour leader.

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Government urged to end its ‘naivety on China’ as Dowden to brief MPs on Beijing’s role in cyber-attacks – UK politics live

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 25 March - 09:53

The deputy prime minister is expected to blame Beijing for the hack and announce new sanctions against Chinese officials

Jo Stevens , the shadow Welsh secretary, was doing the media round for Labour this morning. Asked about China and cyber-attacks against the UK, she said Labour wanted a new strategy. She told Sky News:

We need a new strategy, which we have long been calling for, to tackle state threats with closer working between the Home Office and the Foreign Office to coordinate the UK’s strategic response to this growing threat both to domestic security and our electoral freedoms.

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UK ‘slow to hold China to account’ for cyber-attacks against MPs and voters

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 25 March - 08:47

As deputy PM expected to impose sanctions, head of international alliance says ministers have taken years to respond

The UK government has been too slow to respond to cyber-attacks by China, the head of an international group of parliamentarians focusing on the issue has said, ahead of expected new British sanctions against Beijing.

Oliver Dowden, the deputy prime minister, is expected to announce the sanctions in the Commons on Monday, after what the UK says have been cyber-attacks against MPs and peers , as well as one targeting the Electoral Commission in which Beijing allegedly accessed the personal details of about 40 million voters.

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Details of millions of UK voters accessed by Chinese state, ministers will say

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 25 March - 00:11

Deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden to update MPs on cyber-attacks by Beijing, some of whom may also have been targets

The personal details of millions of voters are believed to have been accessed in an attack by China on Britain’s democratic process, ministers will say.

MPs and peers are thought to be among 43 people who the government looks set to confirm have been targeted by cyber-attacks backed by the Chinese state. The UK could impose sanctions on individuals believed to be involved in these acts of state-backed interference, one of which was a separate attack on the Electoral Commission in which Beijing accessed the personal details of about 40 million voters.

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China targets group of MPs and peers with string of cyber-attacks

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 23 March - 23:42

Deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden is expected to inform parliament on Monday of the attacks

China has targeted a group of MPs and peers at Westminster in a string of cyber-attacks, it has been reported.

On Monday, the deputy prime minister, Oliver Dowden, is expected to inform parliament of the attacks.

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US leading global alliance to counter foreign government disinformation

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 26 February - 05:00

Washington hopes more countries will join US, UK and Canada in signing agreement to define, identify and label such operations

A global coalition of democracies is being formed to protect their societies from disinformation campaigns by foreign governments, the US special envoy on the issue has said.

James Rubin, the special envoy for non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts at the US state department’s global engagement centre (GEC), said the coalition hoped to agree on “definitions for information manipulation versus plain old opinions that other governments are entitled to have even if we disagree with them”.

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Russian Cyberwarfare Documents Leaked

news.movim.eu / Schneier · Thursday, 30 March, 2023 - 22:00

Now this is interesting:

Thousands of pages of secret documents reveal how Vulkan’s engineers have worked for Russian military and intelligence agencies to support hacking operations, train operatives before attacks on national infrastructure, spread disinformation and control sections of the internet.

The company’s work is linked to the federal security service or FSB, the domestic spy agency; the operational and intelligence divisions of the armed forces, known as the GOU and GRU; and the SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence organisation.

Lots more at the link.

The documents are in Russian, so it will be a while before we get translations.