Russia accused of series of international cyber-attacks

German BfV intelligence agency alleges Russian hackers are behind attacks against Nato, a French TV channel and Ukraine's power grid in recent years

Germany's domestic secret service has accused Russia of a series of international cyber-attacks aimed at spying and sabotage, in "hybrid warfare" that also targeted the German parliament last year.

The operations cited by the BfV intelligence agency ranged from an aggressive attack called Sofacy or APT 28 that hit Nato members and knocked French TV station TV5Monde off air, to a hacking campaign called Sandworm that brought down part of Ukraine's power grid last year.