The foreign Ministry said the attack by Russian hackers – Virtual Russia

Resort of diplomacy responded cyberatak an interview with the Russian, according to “Republic”. Attempted break-in system of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs took place in December.

With the conclusions of the Newspapers, it follows that several officials received an e-mail, which had to be alleged statements of the NATO Secretary General. Opening an attachment could end up installing a Trojan horse and – as a result from data theft.

Experts point out that the attack was carried out in an extremely complex way, and the hackers used the (recently discovered) bug in Adobe Flash Player and the server of the Ministry of foreign Affairs in one of the countries of Latin America.

officials from the foreign Ministry have no doubt that the attack was a group APT28 (using a nickname Sofacy and Fancy Bear), that is, the most famous currently the group cyberszpiegowska in the world. She’s the one responsible for stealing the emails of the politicians of the Democratic Party in the United States, the breaking of the German Parliament and the French TV channel TV5 Monde and attacks on the system, the world anti-doping Agency and the OSCE.

security Experts (including those working for the FBI) believe that APT28 is in fact a detachment of Russian Central Council Wywiadowczego of the General Staff (GRU).

the foreign Ministry attempted storming of the theater Faculty of Computer Incident Response, but experts note that the Polish government was not very well prepared for such incidents. In most institutions, the attack would APT28 novel, warns in an interview with “Rzeczpospolita” Peter Burdach company Prevenity, which protects the Polish state institutions. Appropriate procedures in other departments they just entered.