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Russians tried to hack Swiss lab testing samples from Skripal attack

Posted on September 17, 2018 by Dissent

Sean Gallagher reports:

Last Friday, Dutch officials revealed that they had arrested and expelled two alleged Russian intelligence agents who were caught attempting to hack into the Spiez Laboratory, a Swiss national laboratory that is home to the Swiss Federal Institute for NBC (Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical) Protection.

The Spiez lab was testing two sets of samples that were of interest to the Russian government on behalf of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW): the “Novichok” agent used in an attack in the UK against former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia and samples from a poison gas attack in Syria. The OPCW’s headquarters is in The Hague in the Netherlands, which may explain why the attack on the Spiez lab was launched from there.

Read more on Ars Technica.

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