This week it became known that the German power grid was also targeted by criminals.
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Apparently, the criminals have already managed to get into some internal networks of electricity providers. That reported that Federal Office for Security in Information Technology (BSI).
Although it had not gone so far that it came to bottlenecks or even power outages, but it is a warning sign that you have to make arrangements there. Because it appears more and more often that the energy supply in Germany the goal of hacking attacks becomes.
It is apparently part of a wider attack with the alleged goal of paralyzing the German power grid. However, the BSI has neither confirmed nor denied this. There should be no more details.