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DUTCH VILLAGE ‘PLAYED KEY ROLE IN RUSSIAN CYBER ATTACKS ON UKRAINE’

CrimeTech & Media February 23, 2022

The De Koker windmill in Wormer. Photo: Quistnix/Wikimedia Commons

An internet server based in a village outside Amsterdam was used as a base by
Russia to launch cyber attacks against Ukraine last week, NRC reported on
Wednesday.

Wormer is a village of around 13,000 people on the river Zaan, just north of the
Zaanse Schans windmills, but according to cybersecurity experts it played a
pivotal role in the hacking of Ukrainian banks last week.

The co-ordinated attack last Wednesday, February 16 – the date when US president
Joe Biden said Russia was ready to invade Ukraine – also targeted the websites
of the Ukrainian army and other government websites.



The sites were taken down after being hit by ‘denial of service’ attacks
co-ordinated through a so-called ‘Mirai’ botnet, in which a network of infected
computers all request access at the same time, paralysing the website’s servers.
US, British and Ukrainian security services say the Russian intelligence agency
GRU was behind the attacks.

The requests are sent not just from regular computers, but also smart devices
such as digital doorbells and cameras.

DDOS attack

Police said one of the hubs was a server based in Wormer, owned by 22-year-old
entrepreneur Sijmen Karel Bakker.

Bakker told NRC he had taken down the account that hosted the attack as soon as
he was informed. ‘I heard from them that the server was involved in a sort of
DDOS [distributed denial of service] attack and that it was about Ukraine.’

He did not reveal the identity of his customer, but said he would co-operate
with requests for information from the police. ‘I rent out the servers and what
my customers do with them is their responsibility. But if they breach our terms
and conditions and Dutch law, we take them offline without hesitation.’

Fraud inquiry

Bakker’s company has previously leased space to far-right website Vizier op
Links, which posts names and addresses of journalists and academics online and
has stuck flyers outside their houses.

The data centre belongs to two businessmen from The Hague, named as Bartholomeus
E. and Reinier van E., who are currently facing criminal charges. Other
companies – unrelated to Bakker’s – are alleged to have hosted sites that sell
illegal drugs, share copyrighted material and distribute indecent images of
children.

The tax office’s criminal investigation branch FIOD raided the centre last year
as part of an inquiry into alleged tax fraud.

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