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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lisa O'Carroll in Brussels

Germany summons Russian envoy over 2023 cyber-attacks

Annalena Baerbock
Annalena Baerbock said the cyber-attacks were ‘absolutely intolerable and unacceptable and will have consequences’. Photograph: Lisi Niesner/Reuters

Germany has summoned a top Russian envoy over a series of cyber-attacks targeting members of the governing Social Democrats and its defence and technology sector.

The 2023 attacks, in which several websites were knocked offline in apparent response to Berlin’s decision to send tanks to Ukraine, have been blamed on a hacker group linked to Russian military intelligence.

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