Security News > 2024 > March > German defense chat overheard by Russian eavesdroppers on Cisco's WebEx

Roderich Kiesewetter, deputy chairman of the German parliament's oversight committee, said the Bundeswehr leak was possibly caused by a Russian agent inside the WebEx call or the Bundeswehr's implementation of it, but the country is still working on discovering how the intrusion took place.

RT has since made a number of claims after publishing the call, including that the conversation provides proof that Germany was planning to help Ukraine to destroy the Kerch Bridge that connects Russia to the illegally annexed Crimea.

Ukraine has long asked Germany to deliver Taurus missiles, but Chancellor Olaf Scholz has repeatedly declined to do so out of fears that the ongoing conflict could escalate.

It's likely the recent release was designed to pressure Germany to drop talks over Taurus missile deliveries.

"Germany is preparing for war with Russia," he said in a second message on Sunday, both of which were lengthy and included several Nazi-themed slurs against the German military.

Asked about developments in the investigation, the Bundeswehr told The Register it had nothing further to add, but pointed to defense minister Boris Pistorius's comments on Sunday, calling the leak an act of "Information war."

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