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German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Friday said Berlin blames a unit of the Russian military intelligence service GRU for a 2023 cyber attack on the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD). “Russian state hackers attacked Germany in cyberspace,” Baerbock said in Adelaide during a visit to Australia, adding there would be consequences. In June 2023 the SPD, the dominant party in Germany’s ruling coalition, said that email accounts belonging to its executive had been the target of a cyber attack earlier that year. According to the SPD, this was made possible by a security vulnerability in so…

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