A unit of the Russian secret service investigated the SPD. The federal government can hardly do anything against such attacks because it lacks the legal authority even to simply avert danger. That should change.
Nice bear, right Fancy Bear, is what experts call the Russian state hacker unit APT28; According to the federal government, it siphoned off data from the SPD at the beginning of 2023. The attack not only reveals the unscrupulousness of the Russian services, but also the Federal Republic’s limited options for responding. In cyberspace, Germany is as daunting as it is Teddy Bear.