BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s Office for Information Security (BSI) has issued warnings to several German firms named by the United States as possible victims of hacking attacks, a newspaper reported, adding that Chinese activity against German firms had increased. Cyber experts have long warned that Germany – with its high level of technology expertise – is a particularly attractive target for cyber attackers of all kinds, including state actors. The United States is embroiled in a trade conflict with China and a senior US intelligence official said last week that Chinese cyber activity in the United States had risen in recent months, targeting critical infrastructure. Cloudhopper focuses on hacking large, third-party, data storage companies, and cloud software service companies that store data for US companies and government agencies. He said China, Russia and other countries continued to try to break into German companies’ computers to steal industrial information.

Source: Egypt Independent December 19, 2018 09:00 UTC