The country's intelligence services have blamed a criminal pro-Russian group.
Over the past day, a number of institutions in Norway have experienced massive DDoS attacks , the Norwegian security service NSM said on Wednesday, accusing a criminal pro-Russian group of these actions, according to the Voice of America.
The attacks, which began last night, were aimed at private and government agencies that provide important services, the agency said, without going into details.
“We are working to find out if there is a connection with government agencies,” NSM Chair Sophie later said. Nistroy to journalists. “We are absolutely certain that no confidential information has been stolen.”
The website of the Norwegian Labor Inspectorate was unavailable on Wednesday, and Norwegian media reported that he was among those attacked.
“We have recently seen similar attacks in other countries, although none of them reported any long-term consequences “, – explained in NSM.
We will remind, the Norwegian authorities rejected the request of the Russian mining company to transport goods to the territory of Svalbard through the mainland. According to the Norwegian Foreign Ministry, a specific application for a transportation permit was rejected on June 15.
20 tons of Russian goods “bound” to the Russian mining town of Barentsburg in Svalbard were “stuck” at the Sturskug border station.
< Svalbard is a polar archipelago located in the Arctic Ocean, between 76 ° 26 'and 80 ° 50' north latitude and 10 ° and 32 ° east longitude. The northernmost part of Norway. The administrative center is the city of Longyearbyen.
In 1920, as part of the Paris Peace Conference, the Treaty of Svalbard was concluded, which consolidated Norwegian sovereignty over the archipelago, but all member states had the right to carry out commercial and research activities on the basis of full equality and demilitarized status of the archipelago.
Significant economic activity in the archipelago, except for Norway, is carried out only by Russia, which has a Russian settlement on the island of Western Svalbard – Barentsburg, as well as the preserved villages of Pyramid and Grumant.
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