{"id":40651,"date":"2025-12-12T16:21:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/german-foreign-ministry-summons-russian-ambassador-over-surge-in-cyberattacks\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T16:21:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:21:39","slug":"german-foreign-ministry-summons-russian-ambassador-over-surge-in-cyberattacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/german-foreign-ministry-summons-russian-ambassador-over-surge-in-cyberattacks\/","title":{"rendered":"German Foreign Ministry summons Russian ambassador over surge in cyberattacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The German Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian ambassador in Berlin over cyberattacks aimed at undermining democracy. Germany has evidence of GRU involvement in a 2024 cyberattack and interference in the February elections.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.unn.ua%2Fimg%2F2025%2F12%2F12%2F1765554584-2962-large.webp&amp;w=720&amp;q=75\" alt=\"German Foreign Ministry summons Russian ambassador over surge in cyberattacks\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Germany&#039;s Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian ambassador in Berlin and stated that it had made it clear: there will be consequences for hybrid attacks supported by the government in Moscow aimed at undermining democracy. This is reported by Bloomberg, writes UNN.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p>&quot;We have been observing a massive increase in threatening hybrid actions by Russia for some time,&quot; said ministry spokesman Martin Giese at a regular government briefing in Berlin on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;This ranges from disinformation campaigns and espionage to cyberattacks and attempted acts of sabotage,&quot; Giese added, noting that the German government has clear evidence of the involvement of Russia&#039;s military intelligence agency, the GRU, in two specific incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Germany is developing a secret plan in case of war with Russia &#8211; WSJ27.11.25, 10:20 \u2022 15962 views<\/p>\n<p>These were the 2024 cyberattack on the German air traffic control system by a hacker group called &quot;Fancy Bear&quot; and interference in the February elections and other internal affairs through a campaign called &quot;Storm 1516.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Together with its European partners, Germany will take &quot;a series of countermeasures to make Russia pay a price for its hybrid actions,&quot; Giese said, including new sanctions against individuals, such as travel bans and asset freezes.<\/p>\n<h2>Recall<\/h2>\n<p>European countries are considering joint offensive cyber operations and surprise military exercises in response to Russia&#039;s hybrid attacks. This comes amid an unprecedented number of sabotage acts and attempted attacks linked to Moscow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian ambassador in Berlin over cyberattacks aimed at undermining democracy. Germany has evidence of GRU involvement in a 2024 cyberattack and interference in the February elections. Germany&#039;s Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian ambassador in Berlin and stated that it had made it clear: there will be consequences for hybrid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}