Pro-Russian Hackers Take Down German Govt. Websites

Pro-Russian Hackers Take Down German Govt. Websites: A group of pro-Russian hackers is claiming responsibility for recent attacks that brought down German government websites including the page for Chancellor Angela Merkel, the foreign ministry and the lower parliament.

The group calls itself CyberBerkut and claims it launched those cyber-attacks over Germany’s supporting stance towards the “criminal regime in Kiev”. The timing of the attack on the government websites came just before meeting were about to be held between German and Ukrainian leaders.