The group was called Unit 26E (Operational Support and Listening Technology), then it was first renamed in “Working Group TX “(IT Operations) and finally “Sub-Directorate T4″(Cyber Intelligence). Under the SIGINT Directorate, there is a secret hacker unit focused on “operative technological attacks on IT systems “all over the world. Harald Fechner, the head of the BND’s Signals Intelligence Directorate until his retirement in June 2009, testified in the German parliamentary committee investigating the NSA spying scandal two years ago.įechner was the head of a cyber army composed of more than a thousand spies that were involved in surveillance operation the spies were intercepting communication streams via radio waves, telephone cables and tapped fiber-optic cables. According to the documents, German cyber spies handed a prototype of this technology over to the NSA due to their long-term collaborations.
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