{"id":36748,"date":"2025-08-15T13:12:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T10:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=36748"},"modified":"2025-08-15T15:28:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:28:29","slug":"cyber-incident-in-norway-europe-steps-up-response-to-russian-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/cyber-incident-in-norway-europe-steps-up-response-to-russian-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber incident in Norway: Europe steps up response to russian threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Norwegian Police Security Service reported that pro-russian hackers were involved in sabotage at a dam in Norway. On April 7, 2025, they remotely opened the floodgate for four hours, temporarily disrupting the water flow.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"x1xsqp64 xiy17q3 x1o6pynw x19co3pv xdj266r xjn30re xat24cr x1hb08if x2b8uid\" data-testid=\"emoji\"><span class=\"xexx8yu xcaqkgz x18d9i69 xbwkkl7 x3jgonx x1bhl96m\">\u25ab\ufe0f<\/span><\/span> After the cyberattack, a video from the dam\u2019s control panel appeared on Telegram with the marking of a pro-russian group. In doing so, the russians effectively claimed responsibility for the incident.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"x1xsqp64 xiy17q3 x1o6pynw x19co3pv xdj266r xjn30re xat24cr x1hb08if x2b8uid\" data-testid=\"emoji\"><span class=\"xexx8yu xcaqkgz x18d9i69 xbwkkl7 x3jgonx x1bhl96m\">\u25ab\ufe0f<\/span><\/span> The Norwegian agency stressed that russia and its proxies are increasingly using hybrid attacks, and it is necessary to be ready for possible new incidents.<\/p>\n<p>This is already a systemic policy of the russian federation aimed at destabilizing European states \u2014 the kremlin seeks to sow fear and chaos. Law enforcement agencies in other European countries have also reported about the growing activity of pro-russian hacker groups targeting sabotage and interference in internal affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Although russian propaganda tries to deny the kremlin\u2019s involvement in such incidents, the world recognizes the real threat from the russian federation and is actively working to counter it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Norwegian Police Security Service reported that pro-russian hackers were involved in sabotage at a dam in Norway. On April 7, 2025, they remotely opened the floodgate for four hours, temporarily disrupting the water flow. \u25ab\ufe0f After the cyberattack, a video from the dam\u2019s control panel appeared on Telegram with the marking of a pro-russian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":932,"footnotes":""},"categories":[932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}