Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service

The former Ministry of Education and Science, now headquarters of Dutch intelligence agency AIVD in The Hague, Netherlands. tns photo. By Tim Johnson McClatchy Washington Bureau. Thursday, February 22, 2018. Print. WASHINGTON — The amount criminals earn off ID theft, hacking and other forms of cybercrime ...

Now, thanks to a report in the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant by Huib Modderkolk, it appears that as early as 2014 Holland's General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) had hacked into Cozy Bear's innermost workings—including, astonishingly, its internal security cameras. And AIVD spent as long ...

Om relevant te zijn in de wereld van de cyberveiligheid is loyaliteit naar je opdrachtgever uiteindelijk belangrijker dan onbegrensde transparantie richting inlichtingendiensten als AIVD en MIVD. Dat zegt Ronald Prins, oprichter van beveiligingsbedrijf Fox-IT, in BNR De Overname. 'We werken voor die klant en dan heeft de ...

The Dutch security services AIVD and MIVD will start disclosing information in their annual reports on the number of phone-tapping requests each year. The government had kept the information classified due to to state security concerns, but a court ordered the information to be disclosed. The Council of ...

Dutch intelligence service the AIVD managed to gain access to the Russian hacking group “Cozy Bear,” which launched attacks on the Democratic Party—and discovered that the group was directed by the SVR. In January 2017, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a report in which it ...

The Dutch media's obsession with Russia is not accidental. Last week, Dutch newspaper Volkskrant and TV station NOS published a report claiming that the country's AIVD intelligence service compromised the computer of a hacker part of Russian-based cyber-espionage group Cozy Bear (also known as ...

According to a new report published by de Volkskrant, the Dutch intelligence agency AIVD penetrated the computer network of a university adjacent to Red Square back in 2014, only to later realize they had tapped into APT29, aka Cozy Bear, one of the Russian government-affiliated organizations that ...

... alert their American counterparts about the cyber-intrusion of the Democratic National Committee by Cozy Bear, a hacking group believed to be tied to the Russian government,” "Nieuwsuur"'s report began. “Intelligence hackers from Dutch AIVD (General Intelligence and Security Service) had penetrated ...

The Dutch intelligence agency AIVD spied on the Russian group believed to have hacked the Democratic Party ahead of U.S. presidential elections, local media reported on Thursday. Current affairs program Nieuwsuur and newspaper de Volkskrant based the story on several anonymous intelligence ...

BERLIN - Dutch domestic intelligence service AIVD had access to the infamous Russian hacking group Cozy Bear for at least a year starting in mid-2014, local media outlets said on Thursday. According to the reports, the Dutch government alerted the United States to Russian interference in the 2016 ...

The Dutch intelligence agency AIVD watched Russian intelligence hack into the systems of the Democratic Party and steal the infamous Democratic National Committee emails that may have swayed the 2016 elections when leaked, according to new reports from the Netherlands. The reports suggest that ...

Exterior view of the building complex which houses the Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service in Zoetermeer, Netherlands, Friday, Jan. 26, 2018. The Netherlands' spy services AIVD and MIVD broke into the computers used by a powerful Russian hacking group and may be sitting on evidence ...

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 ...

Incidentally, when US intelligence agencies said they believed Russia to be behind election-related hacking and meddling, that conclusion was supported by information from AIVD, the Dutch intelligence service. According to de Volkskrant, AIVD in 2014 had established surveillance on Cozy Bear, the ...

Western intelligence, specifically the Dutch intelligence service AIVD, has evidently been monitoring for years the “Advanced Persistent Threats”—government-sponsored hackers who make up the Russia teams known as Fancy Bear and Cozy Bear, which were responsible for the attacks on Democratic ...