German parliament foiled cyber attack by hackers via Israeli website

The German parliament was the target of fresh cyber attacks in January that attempted to piggy-back on an Israeli newspaper site to target politicians in Germany, Berlin's cyber security watchdog said on Wednesday.

Cyber defenses installed after a 2015 hack of the parliament helped avert the attempted breaches, the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) said in a statement.

www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-cyber-idUSKBN1701V3