On July 30, 2018, The Local.ch reported that Russian state-connected hacker group known as Sandworm targeted the Swiss Spiez Laboratory. The Spiez Laboratory analyzed the Novichok nerve agent used in the assassination attempt of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the town of Salisbury, U.K. According to the Federal Office for Civil Protection, which oversees the lab, the hack caused limited damage. The targeted lab provides a variety of services to national and international agencies in “implementing and developing arms control and non-proliferation agreements.”