Germany concerned about possible ‘sleeper’ cyber sabotage

A German flag is seen on the laptop screen in front of a computer screen on which cyber code is displayed, in this illustration picture taken March 2, 2018. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration

BERLIN: A growing number of countries can hack into private computer networks and install malicious software to sabotage another country's infrastructure, Germany's domestic spy chief said on Sept 4.

China, Russia and other countries continued to try to break into German companies' computers to steal industrial information, Hans-Georg Maassen, head of the BfV domestic intelligence agency, told a security conference.