US Justice Dept charge 7 Russian GRU officers with hacking international agencies; Britain & Australia accuse the GRU of a 2017 Ukraine cyberattack; Dutch officials allege that GRU agents tried to hack the world’s chemical weapons watchdog, OPCW.
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Dutch defense officials released photos of Russian GRU agents using Wi-Fi hacking equipment hidden in a car parked outside a Marriott Hotel in the GRU's botched attempt to hack the OPCW, the chemical weapons watchdog investigating the nerve agent attack on the Skripals.
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The most stunning operation revealed was the GRU's ham-handed attempted break-in of the OPCW, involving a car trunk loaded with a computer, battery, bulky transformer, & hidden antenna, which were all operational when Dutch authorities descended.
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"What Dutch authorities found seemed to be the work of an amateur. A taxi receipt in the pocket of one of the Russian agents showed he had taken a taxi from a street next to GRU headquarters to Moscow’s airport. A laptop found with the team tied them to other GRU hacks."
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