Pro-Russian hackers claim responsibility for major cyberattack on Norway’s public digital services
Summary
A pro-Russian hacker group called Server Killers claimed they caused a big cyberattack on Norway’s government digital services that lasted three days. The attack aimed to block online services but did not fully stop them. Norway increased its support for Ukraine recently, which the hackers said was their reason for the attack.Key Facts
- The cyberattack started on Monday and targeted Norway’s Digitalization Agency (Digdir), which manages public digital services.
- The attack used a method called denial-of-service, where hackers flood a service with a lot of traffic to make it hard to use.
- Despite the attack, Digdir kept services running almost all the time.
- Server Killers said they launched the cyberattack because Norway renewed security cooperation with Ukraine on August 23.
- Norway will provide about $9.2 billion to Ukraine next year as part of ongoing support.
- European countries have been on alert due to increased cyberattacks linked to Russia since its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
- Past cyber incidents in Norway and Denmark were also blamed on Russian or pro-Russian hacker groups targeting critical infrastructure.
- The goal of such attacks is to weaken support for Ukraine and cause problems in European countries.
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