The Belgian intelligence services have not self-identified that Russian hackers on the systems of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, were active. The military intelligence service ADIV would be tipped off by the CIA.
Reported that The Standard on the basis of, say, ‘well placed sources’. The CIA would be the Belgian colleagues of the ADIV have warned that Russian hackers through the so-called Snake virus had entered the computer systems of the ministry of Foreign Affairs. In previous posts was to suggest that the Belgian secret services in the attacks had been identified.
In addition to the tip from the CIA that Russian hackers were active in government, would the American intelligence have also warned that the attackers sought to NATO documents about Ukraine. Certainly one secret NATO report would be captured, but presumably there is more stolen.
The Federal Computer Crime Unit is going to attack together with the military intelligence service and the service state Security service to investigate further. Earlier this week it was decided to provide the ministry of Foreign Affairs in a digital quarantine. The measure is for municipalities to impossible to any longer passports to deliver.
The Belgian government led by Di Rupo would be furious about the cracking. So was Tuesday for the first time in two years, organised a meeting of the ministerial committee for Intelligence and Security. The government has after the hacks of GCHQ in Belgacom 10 million euro was allocated to systems to be more secure and some of the millions going to the affected ministry. According to experts the amount available, however, much too low,
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