GRU close-access hacking attempt against OPCW disrupted in The Hague

In April 2018, Dutch security services, working with the UK, disrupted a GRU (Unit 26165) operation to hack the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons' Wi-Fi network in The Hague. At the time, the OPCW was examining the Salisbury Novichok poisoning. The officers were expelled from the Netherlands.

Established by. Dutch government and UK government joint disclosure, 4 Oct 2018. The UK statement in The Hague named GRU Unit 26165. The four officers were later listed in EU cyber sanctions (Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1125). The US indictment of 4 Oct 2018 charged related GRU officers.

Latest. EU sanctions remain in force.