Cyber criminals in the Kremlin
Cyber criminals in the Kremlin
A "DESIRED" poster of Russian individuals is seen during a press conference to announce criminal charges in Washington, DC, on October 4.
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On Thursday, several governments made a coordinated launch of new information on Russian cyber espionage, including the formal indictment of seven Russian intelligence agents from the Washington Department of Justice. The authorities are conducting a public service by lifting the veil of secrecy that generally involves counterintelligence.
The prosecution of Justice appoints seven agents of the Kremlin intelligence agency, the GRU, for hacking attacks against anti-doping sports agencies and Westinghouse Electric Co. As a reward for investigations into the use of drugs banned by Russian athletes, the GRU stole data Online about hundreds of other athletes, including sending agents to Rio de Janeiro to hack the computers of anti-doping officers at a conference. He then leaked confidential information to embarrass innocent athletes.
Meanwhile, the Dutch government says four Russian agents appeared in April with the intention of hacking the wireless network at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague. The plan seems to have been to place sophisticated equipment in a rental car and then park outside the building with the trunk pointing to the offices to pick up the wireless transmissions from the computer.
The OPCW was at that time investigating the Kremlin's use of a nervous agent to try to assassinate a Russian double agent in the United Kingdom, an attack that killed an innocent civilian. The agency was also investigating the use of chemical weapons by the Russian client regime in Syria.
There is evidence that the spies would have gone to a laboratory affiliated with the OPCW in Switzerland if the Dutch had not caught them. The British government says that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Porton Down military laboratory were also targeted by Russian cyber-attacks that failed almost at the same time.
The authorities linked part of the team to Malaysia, suggesting that the Russians could be related to a previous attempt to hack computers used in the investigation of the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight 17 in 2014 by Russian representatives in Ukraine. Clearly, the Kremlin is curious about what other governments know about the Kremlin's criminal activities.
Governments are right to expose all this, despite the aversion for a long time and often reasonable to throw too much public light on counterintelligence. The technical complexity of cybercrime too often gives dishonest leaders like Vladimir Putin room to hide, and offers sympathetic politicians in the Western realm to hide or excuse.
The coordinated disclosure on Thursday is part of the growing willingness of Western governments to inform citizens about the true scale of the cyber threat, and it is important that voters know it. Putin is beyond shame, but it is not beyond the exhibition.
It appeared on October 5, 2018, print edition.
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