Denmark Says Russia Was Behind Two 'Destructive and Disruptive' Cyberattacks

The Danish government has accused Russia of being behind two 'destructive and disruptive' cyberattacks in what it describes as 'very clear evidence' of a hybrid war. From a report: The Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS) announced on Thursday that Moscow was behind a cyberattack on a Danish water utility in 2024 and a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on Danish websites in the lead-up to the municipal and regional council elections in November.

The first, it said, was carried out by the pro-Russian group known as Z-Pentest and the second by NoName057(16), which has links to the Russian state. 'The Russian state uses both groups as instruments of its hybrid war against the west,' DDIS said in a statement. 'The aim is to create insecurity in the targeted countries and to punish those that support Ukraine. Russia's cyber operations form part of a broader influence campaign intended to undermine western support for Ukraine.' It added: 'The DDIS assesses that the Danish elections were used as a platform to attract public attention -- a pattern that has been observed in several other European elections.'

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