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On April 30, 2015, some members of the German Bundestag received an apparently harmless email.The sender uses an address of the United Nations, a UN ID.In the subject: "Ukraine Conflict".This seems plausible at first.After all, Russia occupied the Crimean Peninsula in 2014. In fact, the email is a so-called phishing email.It contains a link to a website that inconspicuously downloads malware on the computer of the persons concerned. The cyber attack succeeds.The IT systems of the German Bundestag are paralyzed for days.According to estimates, a total of around 16 gigabytes flow to data.This also includes emails from the MP of the then Chancellor Angela Merkel. In the third episode of this podcast series, Spiegel reporter Marcel Rosenbach reconstructs, as the investigators of a hacker group called APT28 finally track down.And he explains why Russia's cyber attacks are far from being limited to espionage.What role do cybersabotage, ransomware attacks and so-called hacktivism play today?