Security Experts:

Connect with us

Hi, what are you looking for?

SecurityWeekSecurityWeek

Cybercrime

Hackers Attack Norway’s Parliament

Norway’s parliament said Tuesday it had been the target of a “vast” cyber attack that enabled hackers to access the emails of some lawmakers.

The hackers’ identities were not immediately known.

Norway’s parliament said Tuesday it had been the target of a “vast” cyber attack that enabled hackers to access the emails of some lawmakers.

The hackers’ identities were not immediately known.

“The parliament has recently been targetted in a vast cyber attack,” the institution wrote in a statement.

“There have been intrusions in the email accounts of a few MPs and employees. Our analyses show that varying quantities of data have been downloaded,” it said, providing no further details.

The website of the Storting, the single chamber parliament, was working normally on Tuesday.

The parliament’s administrative director said the institution had detected “anomalies a little more than a week ago” and took steps “that were effective”.

“We don’t know who’s behind it,” Marianne Andreassen told reporters. A police report has been filed.

In its annual threat assessment published in February, Norway’s domestic intelligence service PST warned of “computer network operations” which they said represented a “persistent and long-term threat to Norway”.

“With no borders and no warning, a malicious actor can cause serious damage to Norwegian companies and infrastructure,” PST said, adding that sensitive information could be “stolen or manipulated” and essential infrastructure “disrupted or destroyed”.

In 2018, Norway arrested a Russian national suspected of gathering information on the parliament’s internet network, but released him several weeks later due to lack of evidence.

At the other end of the world, the New Zealand stock exchange said it had also been the target of cyber attacks from abroad in recent days.

RelatedSpooks Called in as Cyberattacks Again Halt NZ Stock Exchange

Written By

AFP 2023

Click to comment

Daily Briefing Newsletter

Subscribe to the SecurityWeek Email Briefing to stay informed on the latest threats, trends, and technology, along with insightful columns from industry experts.

Join this webinar to learn best practices that organizations can use to improve both their resilience to new threats and their response times to incidents.

Register

Join this live webinar as we explore the potential security threats that can arise when third parties are granted access to a sensitive data or systems.

Register

Expert Insights

Related Content

Cybercrime

Zendesk is informing customers about a data breach that started with an SMS phishing campaign targeting the company’s employees.

Cybercrime

Satellite TV giant Dish Network confirmed that a recent outage was the result of a cyberattack and admitted that data was stolen.

Cybercrime

The release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in late 2022 has demonstrated the potential of AI for both good and bad.

Cybercrime

The changing nature of what we still generally call ransomware will continue through 2023, driven by three primary conditions.

Cyberwarfare

WASHINGTON - Cyberattacks are the most serious threat facing the United States, even more so than terrorism, according to American defense experts. Almost half...

Application Security

PayPal is alerting roughly 35,000 individuals that their accounts have been targeted in a credential stuffing campaign.

Cybercrime

No one combatting cybercrime knows everything, but everyone in the battle has some intelligence to contribute to the larger knowledge base.

Cybercrime

As it evolves, web3 will contain and increase all the security issues of web2 – and perhaps add a few more.