Candid camera: Dutch hacked Russians hacking DNC, including security cameras

Enlarge / Rob Bertholee (L), head of the General Intelligence and Security Service of the Netherlands (AIVD), and Dutch Minister Ronald Plasterk of the Ministry of the Interior, address a press conference on the presentation of the AIVD's annual report in Zoetermeer, the Netherlands, on April 21, 2016. AIVD reportedly penetrated the network of a Russian hacking group directed by Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) in 2014, and shared the intelligence with the US. (credit: ROBIN VAN LONKHUIJSEN/AFP/Getty Images)) According to a report in the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant, the General Intelligence and Security Service of the Netherlands (AIVD)—the Netherlands' domestic intelligence service—had hacked into the network of a building at a Russian university in Moscow some time in the summer of 2014. The building housed a group running a hacking campaign now known as "Cozy Bear," one of the "threat groups" that would later…

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