Pro-Russian hackers target Norway, websites knocked out

Norwegian authorities reported on June 29 a massive hacker attack knocked out public and private websites in Norway in the past 24 hours.

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store said that to his knowledge the attack “has not caused any significant damage.”

The distributed-denial-of-service (DDOS) attack targeted a secure national data network forcing the temporary suspension of online services for several hours, the Norwegian National Security Authority reported.

A criminal pro-Russian group seems to be behind the attacks, NSM head Sofie Nystrom said. She added that the attacks:

give the impression that we are a piece in the current political situation in Europe.

Norwegian media reported that the country’s ambassador to Moscow was summoned to the Foreign Ministry on June 29 for a complaint over Russian supplies being prevented from transiting via Norway to an Arctic Russian coal-mining settlement.

In the same time, the popular NFT marketplace Opensea warned users of email phishing attack after a major data breach. The NFT giant reported that a staff at Customer.io, an email vendor contracted by OpenSea, misused their employee access to download and share email addresses of company’s users and newsletter subscribers with an unauthorized external party.