German Federal Office for IT Security (BSI) now says it was an external attack of even greater proportions, and that governmental IT networks had been under attack as well.
It is feared that this also is just a systematic testrun, like there seem to have been several ones over the past months, directed against Western companies and nations. Somebody seems to test out Western IT infrastructure and its typical vulnerability and potential for abuse since quite some time now. Say insiders and security experts. Many fingers point at Russia. But it could also be non-national hacker groups wanting to land a big coup in the future, at some international conference. The ID of the attacker(s) are not known.
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