Dutch spies say Russian hackers targeted police

THE HAGUE: A antecedently chartless Russian hacking radical known arsenic "Laundry Bear" was down attacks past twelvemonth connected Dutch police, quality services successful the Netherlands said Tuesday, with delicate work-related information stolen.The onslaught past September was portion of a wider run by the Russian hackers against Western and Nato targets, according to an probe by Dutch information and quality services AIVD and MIVD."We person seen that this hacker radical successfully gains entree to delicate accusation from a ample fig of (government) organisations and companies worldwide," said MIVD manager Peter Reesink."They person a circumstantial involvement successful countries of the European Union and Nato," helium added.Laundry Bear hackers person targeted equipped forces, governments and defence contractors arsenic good arsenic IT and work providers successful respective countries, the Dutch authorities said.They person besides tried to deed Dutch high-tech firms producing systems unavailable successful Russia owed to Western sanctions.The probe showed that Laundry Bear was "highly astir apt a Russian state-supported menace actor", the agencies said successful their statement.

The Dutch authorities besides decided to exposure the method methods the hackers utilized to infiltrate systems, hoping this would let for amended defence."This limits Laundry Bear's chances of occurrence and integer networks tin beryllium amended protected," said AIVD main Erik Akerboom. "This increases our nationalist resilience," helium added.