The board encourages everyone who works with society’s important functions to focus on cyber security.
The threat of destructive cyber attacks by Russian state hackers have intensified in Denmark.
This is what the Norwegian Agency for Social Security writes in a press release.
The board encourages everyone who works with society’s important functions to focus even more on cyber security.
Although there is an increased threat from destructive cyberattacks by Russian state hackers, the agency maintains that this is within the overall threat level for destructive cyberattacks, which is “medium.”
– Denmark is at risk of being exposed to attempts at destructive cyber attacks by Russian state hackers, where the intention is to create more extensive consequences for socially important functions than so far, reads the assessment.
The Agency for Community Security works closely with the Defense Intelligence Service (FE) and the Police Intelligence Service (PET), it says.
Furthermore, they are in dialogue with “relevant authorities” about the heightened threat.
– There are some who do not wish us well, and in the worst case, they seek to disrupt our society’s core functions such as the supply of electricity, water and the internet, says Deputy Director of the Agency for Social Security Christine Engel Christensen.
The heightened assessment comes on the basis that Russia’s state hacker groups probably show an increased willingness to take risks to carry out destructive cyber attacks against European NATO countries, the agency assesses.
The heightened threat specifically deals with the threat from Russian state hackers.
The threat posed by Russia’s state hackers differs “significantly” from the threat posed by so-called pro-Russian hackers.
This is because government hackers have the capacity to carry out coordinated and targeted cyber attacks against critical infrastructure, writes the agency.
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