(8 Oct 2018) Russia summoned the Dutch ambassador on Monday after officials there alleged that four agents of Russian GRU military intelligence tried and failed to hack into the world's chemical weapons watchdog, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
Speaking outside the Russian Foreign Ministry building, Ambassador Renee Jones-Bos said she told Russian officials that cyber attacks on international organisations on its soil would not be tolerated.
"We made a very clear signal that this has to stop," Jones-Bos said.
Russia's foreign minister on Monday dismissed the accusations made in the Netherlands last week against the suspected Russian spies, saying they were intended to distract public attention from stark divisions between Western nations.
Sergey Lavrov's comments were a defiant statement that comes amid soaring Russia-West tensions.
British authorities have also accused the GRU of a series of global cybercrimes, and the US Justice Department last Thursday charged seven GRU officers with hacking anti-doping agencies and other organizations.
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