Netherlands says it has disrupted a cyber operation conducted by Russia’s GRU, targeting the chemical weapons watchdog.
At a news conference at the Hague, Dutch authorities have showed passport pictures of four people – three cyber officers and a case officer – who arrived at Schipol airport from Moscow on April 10.
The four men went to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) headquarters on a reconnaissance mission.
Pictures at the news conference show the car they used with a wi-fi antenna and technical equipment in its boot, thought to be used to hack the network.
It was around this time investigations into the Skripals’ novichok poisoning were taking place.
They decided to try and destroy smartphones following their mission and also took their rubbish with them out of the hotel rooms they stayed in, in an attempt not to leave any DNA traces.
They had 20,000 euros and $20,000 in cash with them.