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2018-08-01 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Putin's hackers attack Laboratory Spiez (analyzers of neurotoxin attack)
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[Blick] The Russians have disguised themselves as Labor Spiez and wanted to dupe researchers with a hidden malicious program.
Labor Spiez was apparently attacked by Russian hackers. At the center of the investigation is the group Sandworm.
The research institute in the Bernese Oberland is the Swiss office for the protection against ABC attacks. What sounds sensational on paper, in practice, is really all in itself: The scientists are world experts as experts par excellence when it comes to chemical weapons, as in the spectacular case of the former double agent Sergei Skripal .
The Russian ex-spy and his daughter were poisoned in March in Salisbury, England with the neurotoxin Nowitschok. The Spiez laboratory was involved in the analysis. This attracted Moscow's interest .
According to Kurt Münger of the Federal Office for Civil Protection, the attack began in the run-up to a major conference, to which the institute invited to the Oberland in September. Participants are specialists in chemical and biological warfare.
Disguised as a Word document
Months before the meeting, a Word document was circulating among them that seemed to contain only information about the meeting. In fact, a malicious program was installed in the file.
In order to avoid suspicion, the document was sent on behalf of the Spiez laboratory. The senders used a faked e-mail address. "Someone has posed as Labor Spiez," says Münger.
For security reasons, Münger can not say how long the hackers have been up to now: "We immediately informed the conference invitee that the document was not ours. And pointed to the danger. »
Also, whether one of the addressees has opened the document and thus the hackers on the glue has gone silent, the Federal Office for Civil Protection. "The laboratory itself has not registered any outflow of data," says Münger.
The institute confirmed the attack against the German news magazine " Spiegel ", which blamed the hacking group Sandworm.
Bonded with Putin's secret service
The force is said to specialize in sabotage and assigned to the Russian military intelligence GRU. Experts from the Russian IT security company Kaspersky Lab confirm: Spiez hackers have Russian language skills.
It is the same group that has already attacked the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Korea. Now focus on a new goal: organizations that specialize in biological and chemical threats. Like the laboratory Spiez.
Hackers have already attacked several targets in Switzerland this year. The Federal Intelligence Service reported internally on cyber attacks on "various international sports federations" based in the Confederation, including the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne - Swiss IT companies have also been hit.
Already behind these hacker attacks suspected the intelligence service at that time, the Russian government. The pattern seems to repeat itself. 
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