FILE PHOTO: A hooded man holds laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration/File PhotoBERLIN : A series of cyber attacks attributable to the Russian military intelligence service GRU targeted Germany's governing Social Democrats as well as the country's logistics, defence, aerospace and IT sectors, the interior ministry said on Friday.
"The Russian cyber attacks are a threat to our democracy, which we are resolutely countering," Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said in a statement, adding that Germany was acting alongside the EU and NATO."Under no circumstances will we allow ourselves to be intimidated by the Russian regime." Earlier on Friday, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock warned Russia that it would face consequences for the attacks, which saw a series of German websites knocked offline.
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