⁍ The Robert Koch Institute for infectious disease control was targeted again by hackers.

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⁍ It followed a similar cyber strike on Oct. 22.

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⁍ The institute’s headquarters were the target of a firebomb attack at the weekend.

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– Hackers hit Germany’s Robert Koch Institute for infectious disease control for the second time in two weeks, this time with a distributed denial-of-service attack on the health agency’s website, the country’s Interior Ministry says. The attack follows a firebomb attack on the institute’s headquarters over the weekend, which caused only superficial damage, Reuters reports. The German government is due to decide today whether to reimpose a national lockdown in response to a steep acceleration in infections. Chancellor Angela Merkel and regional leaders are due to decide whether to reimpose a national lockdown in response to a steep acceleration in infections. Although most Germans support efforts to curb the pandemic, a skeptical minority, including anti-vaccination activists, conspiracy theorists, and the political far right, has staged protests. Germany’s health infrastructure is facing a rising cyber threat, the Interior Ministry says, with hospital workers targeted by deceptive phishing mails that seek to trick them into giving away system passwords. A patient died last month after a hospital in Duesseldorf was unable to admit her because its systems had been knocked out by a cyber attack. Prosecutors have opened a homicide investigation into what experts say is the first death caused directly by a cyber attack.