The leak of secret information of the German army on the Internet

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency, just in It was early March that a spying operation of the German army shocked the country’s authorities. Now another data breach has been reported, which is said to have provided access to thousands of online posts. Data protection struggles. It is said that thousands of links to video meetings with inside information about the forces have been freely available on the Internet for months. The German publication D-Site reported this news citing its own research. According to this report, many meetings that were classified as confidential in this scandal have been made available and apparently the past meetings have not been deleted either. It reported that the vulnerability and data leak were discovered by a team of IT security experts from the Netzbegrünung Association and confirmed by D-Site’s own samples. It is said that the Bundeswehr only became aware of this security breach through inquiries, and the video conferencing system is now disconnected from the Internet.

The Bundeswehr Cyber ​​Force Germany) CIR confirmed that this security gap is now closed. According to the German news agency, the spokesman of the cyberspace and intelligence unit of the army said that there was a “vulnerability” during the week, but it was fixed within 24 hours.

The incident affected the Bundeswehr instance of Webox, which is actually considered particularly secure and through which confidential discussions are conducted, the report said. According to internal information, Webex holds 45,000 meetings per month, which is an average of more than 1,000 meetings per day. Russian RT released an audio recording of a Webex conference of high-ranking Bundeswehr officers in a group on the Telegram messaging service.

At the time, it was revealed that a Russian intelligence service had Four high-ranking officers of the German Air Force were intercepted by phone. They had discussed the operational scenarios of the German cruise missile in the event of the delivery of the Taurus to Ukraine. Webex can lead to this wiretapping scandal? Germany’s defense ministry previously blamed an unprotected phone call from a Bundeswehr general in Singapore.

They spoke via Web-Ex video conference in February They talked about how the Ukrainian military could use the German Taurus cruise missiles if the federal government decided to deliver them. Among other things, they discussed the question of whether cruise missiles could destroy a bridge built by Russia to Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula, which it annexed in violation of international law.

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