Berlin Cyberattack: Why Lichtenberg Refused CrowdStrike After the Rhysida Hack
In August 2026, a major cyberattack attributed to the Rhysida ransomware gang exfiltrated 5.79 terabytes of data from administrative systems in Berlin. When the Berlin Senate Chancellery contracted United States security firm CrowdStrike to deploy its Falcon Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) agent across municipal networks, the district administration of Lichtenberg formally refused access to … Read more