Russia accused of cyber attacks
Dutch and British allege moves to undermine Western democracies
London/The Hague -Britain and the Netherlands accused Russia of running a global campaign of cyber attacks to undermine Western democracies, including what the Dutch government described as an attempt to hack into the UN chemical-weapons watchdog. Moscow denied what its foreign ministry spokeswoman called a "diabolical perfume cocktail" of allegations by someone with a "rich imagination". But the accusations will deepen Moscow’s isolation at a time when its diplomatic ties with the West have been downgraded over the poisoning of a spy in Britain and it is under US and European sanctions over its actions in Ukraine. Dutch authorities said they had disrupted an attempt to hack into the Hague-based Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in April. At the time, the UN watchdog was investigating the poison used to attack a former spy in Britain and chemical weapons which the West says were used in Syria by Russia’s ally President Bashar al-Assad. Dutch Defence Ministe...
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