In view of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) continuously assesses the situation with regard to information security in Germany. The BSI continues to identify an increased threat situation for Germany. Since the beginning of Russia's attack on Ukraine, there have been individual IT security incidents in Germany in this context, but they have only had isolated effects. Among other things, these were collateral damage from cyber activities in the context of the war as well as individual targeted attacks against companies and organisations, also from the area of critical infrastructures.

The BSI repeatedly observes distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks by hacktivists against targets in Germany and internationally ...