How did Russian hackers hack the meeting of senior German officers?
| Germany's defense minister explained how Russian hackers managed to hack the confidential conversation of the country's top military officers and reveal its audio file. |
report Mehr News Agency quoted by ABC News, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius this Tuesday in explaining how the secret conversation of the commanders was revealed The head of the army of this country announced about the attack on the Crimea peninsula that one of the senior army officers in a hotel in Singapore had used an insecure phone line to participate in a conference call, which Russian hackers hacked and revealed the entire conversation. /p>
After the leak of the audio file of German officers in which they talked about the possible shipment of weapons to Ukraine in order to attack the Crimean bridge, the German Ministry of Defense issued a press statement. published about this issue; A statement that was ridiculed by a German media for its accessibility on the web.
The statement of Boris Pitorius, the Minister of Defense of Germany, was placed in the form of an audio file on the output of this ministry’s website. Under the link that was linked to a cloud space and the audio file was saved, this institution informed the users that if they want to access the file, they can use the code “1234”!
Although the file is not classified and the password was chosen only symbolically, Bild newspaper strongly criticized it and wrote: After Russian spies eavesdropped on the conversations of the German army, it’s really embarrassing!
Rashatudi TV network on Saturday published the text version of the audio file of the conversation between four German air force officers, including General Ingo Gerhalts, and claimed to have obtained the file from service officials. Russian security has gained.
German media confirmed the authenticity of the audio file. The German Ministry of Defense refused to discuss the contents of these conversations, but admitted that the German military is investigating whether “conversations in the Air Force were wiretapped or not.”
Rashatudi released the original version of the 32-minute audio file with English subtitles yesterday. According to the journalists’ confirmation, the voices in the file belong to Inago Gerharts, the senior general of the German Air Force, Frank Graefe, the deputy of the Joint Staff of the German Army in the field of operations, and two senior personnel of the German Aerospace Operations Command Center.
In this file, the possible delivery of the long-range missile “Taros” to Ukraine, as well as operational details and objectives are discussed. Also, in another part of this conversation, the possible power of the Taros to destroy the Crimean bridge was mentioned, and finally the officers came to the conclusion that it is difficult to target this bridge and in addition, the Crimean bridge has been sufficiently fortified.
