Germany's cyber espionage allegations are an old trick

Germany's intelligence agency BfV has claimed that China is using fake LinkedIn profiles as a means of spying on German officials and politicians, alleging it is part of a "broad-based attempt to infiltrate in particular parliaments, ministries and government agencies", as BfV head Hans-Georg Maassen put it.

That is a very serious allegation, and BfV needs to provide evidence to support it.

Instead, BfV seems to be just "giving a dog a bad name to hang him", since there has been no verified damage found, no suspects arrested, no specific victims identified.