Germany Concerned About ‘Sleeper’ Cyber Attacks From China and Other Aggressors

Germany Concerned About ‘Sleeper’ Cyber Attacks From China and Other Aggressors
Hans-Georg Maassen, head of Germany's domestic intelligence service, at a meeting with interior ministers of German federal states, in Saarbruecken, Germany on Nov. 30, 2016. Oliver Dietze/dpa/ via AP
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BERLIN—A growing number of countries can hack into private computer networks and install malicious software to sabotage another country’s infrastructure, Germany’s domestic spy chief said.

China, Russia, and other countries continued to try to break into German companies’ computers to steal valuable industrial information, said Hans-Georg Maassen, head of the BfV domestic intelligence agency, at a security conference.