As Spiegel.de reports, the BSI is again warning German companies to prepare for cyber attacks. The NATO partners would "register increased aggressive scanning activities in their networks" - as a possible preparation for attacks.
In view of the war in Ukraine, the German security authorities, the BSI, are fearing further cyber attacks that could also affect German targets. The Federal Office for Information Security sent the third warning letter to companies and authorities on Thursday - it rates the current IT threat situation in the country with the second highest warning level "orange".
“As a possible preparation for attacks”
The specific reason was the Russian invasion and previous recent cyber attacks on Ukrainian targets. The day before the invasion, there were new overload attacks (»Distributed Denial of Service«, DDoS for short) on the websites of two Ukrainian banks as well as ministries and parliament. There is more about the statement by the BSI on Spiegel.de
More at Spiegel.de