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Amongst other news outlets, CIO reports on a hacker attack on the German parliament (Bundestag) that occured four weeks ago and is still ongoing:
Trojans introduced to the Bundestag network are still working and are still sending data from the internal network to an unknown destination, several anonymous parliament sources told German publication Der Spiegel.[German]
All software and hardware in the German parliamentary network might need to be replaced[1]. More than four weeks after a cyberattack, the government hasn't managed to erase spyware from the system, according to a news report.
Some MPs have concerns to call experts from the foreign intelligence service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst, for help, because the agency would gain access to the legislative process, a possible violation of the principles of Separation of Powers.
[1] Apparently about 20.000 machines are affected
(Score: 5, Informative) by Dr Spin on Saturday June 13 2015, @04:02PM
WTF has windows got to do with it
The original source said it was spread by a rogue windows Installer (MSI) file.
As a Unix user since 1978 I have never known it be susceptible to rogue msi's.
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(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday June 14 2015, @07:33AM
Of course that raises the question why ordinary user accounts had the rights to install software.
With such settings, you could also have compromised a Linux system with a malicious .rpm or .deb package.
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