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Pro-Russian, anti-Israeli hackers pose biggest cybercrime threats in Germany

In Data Breach News
June 03, 2025

It may not seem inuitively obvious to many people, but Reuters reports that cybercrime in Germany rose to a record level last year, driven by hacker attacks from pro-Russian and anti-Israeli groups.

Some 131,391 cases of cybercrime took place in Germany last year and a further 201,877 cases were committed from abroad or an unknown location, a BKA report said.

The actors behind the hacker attacks on German targets were primarily either pro-Russian or anti-Israeli, said the BKA, adding targets were mostly public and federal institutions.

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