Anonymous Claims Responsibility For Cyberattack Against Rosneft

Russian energy giant Rosneft has been hit by a major cyberattack, according to various news reports in Germany. Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security, the BSI, confirmed that hacker group Anonymous has targeted several units of Rosneft, forcing the Russian oil company to take its systems down. Anonymous published a statement confirming responsibility for the attack, revealing it had captured 20 terabytes of data. Prosecutors in Berlin have opened an investigation, according to a report in Der Spiegel magazine.  Rosneft is…