On 6 October 2026, German investigators in the Bavarian town of Bad Tölz arrested 80-year-old August Hanning, the man who headed Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND) from December 1998 to November 2005 and who, until 2009, served as State Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior. At the same time...
German military counterintelligence says sabotage and hybrid-attack threats have risen
Over the past year, the threat of sabotage and hybrid attacks in Germany has increased markedly. That assessment appears in the 2025 annual report of the Bundeswehr Military Counterintelligence Service (MAD). The service links a substantial share of suspicious sabotage cases to Russia with a high degree of probability, Der...