{"id":40961,"date":"2025-04-22T11:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T11:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/40961\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T11:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T11:35:12","slug":"russian-attacks-on-europe-included-bid-to-sway-eu-election-dutch-spies-warn-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/40961\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian attacks on Europe included bid to sway EU election, Dutch spies warn \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There are turbulent developments in international politics and in the alliance field &#8230; The speed with which this is happening and the potential effect on our security is unprecedented,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The MIVD revealed several recent Russian operations in the Netherlands, including the first known cyber sabotage attack by a Russian hacker group targeting an unspecified Dutch public facility&#8217;s digital systems in 2024. According to the report, the impact of the attack was minimal and did not lead to any damage.<\/p>\n<p>The agency also detected a Russian cyber operation targeting critical infrastructure in the Netherlands, potentially in preparation for future sabotage. The operation did not succeed, the report noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe live in a gray zone between war and peace,&#8221;\u00a0Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans commented on the report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo prevent vulnerabilities in the face of Russia, a swift scaling up of our armed forces and defense industry is essential. Only then can we prevent further Russian aggression in Europe,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;There are turbulent developments in international politics and in the alliance field &#8230; The speed with which this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[2437,7694,473,3677,33,11579,806,6084,2817,2597,20149,332,811,3053,657,771,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-40961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-companies","9":"tag-critical-infrastructure","10":"tag-defense","11":"tag-digital","12":"tag-elections","13":"tag-hackers","14":"tag-industry","15":"tag-infrastructure","16":"tag-intelligence","17":"tag-military","18":"tag-public-transport","19":"tag-russia","20":"tag-security","21":"tag-the-netherlands","22":"tag-ukraine","23":"tag-war","24":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114381411071152107","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}