During the Saturday evening paralyzed a cyber attack several of the Swedish mainstream media.
Göran Frisk, former head of the Defense anti-submarine warfare force, is convinced that it is it is Russia who is behind the attack.
– Russia conducts moment psychological warfare against Sweden, says Frisk.
According to police, the attack from the Russian “zombie machines”.
– You have used what we call zombie machines, says IT police Anders Ahlqvist.
Nätat Give thanks to the Swedish media started at 19:30 o’clock in the Saturday and after 23 o’clock started most of the sites working again.
Aftonbladet, Expressen, Dagens Nyheter, the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, Dagens Industri, Sydsvenskan and Helsingborgs Dagblad was during the evening more or less inaccessible.
who is behind the attack remains unclear. Statistics of the company Netnod, which is responsible for the major hubs in the Swedish part of the Internet, shows that data traffic to Sweden from Russian Internet operators increased substantially during that part of the evening as IT attack was going on.
For a few days then could DN tell you that the Swedish security police, SAPO, in its yearbook describes how Russia has engaged in war preparations against Sweden.
the preparations have inter alia been to Russia in 2014 bought large quantities of maps.
SAPO has also previously stated that the biggest espionage threat to Sweden from Russia.
in SAPO’s Yearbook for 2015, there is a special section where it is extensively described how Russia in addition to traditional espionage increasingly putting resources psychological warfare.
the threat from Russia seem so serious that the title “Russian influence on public opinion – and the democratic decision-making” has been set where Russia’s actions are described.
Despite the threat so mean Sapo Swedish society is robust – while warning that foreign influence is not to be taken lightly.
the security is also clear that physical weapons are not needed because we have to be threatened. In today’s information society, words and information at least as important weapons because public confidence in elected officials could be damaged.
Göran Frisk, former head of the Swedish military’s anti-submarine warfare force in the 1980s, is convinced that it is Russia is behind the attack on the Swedish media.
– who else would have this interest of such a national attack? They want to show that Sweden should not mopsa up. It is an information war, a psykoligisk warfare, says Göran Frisk.
Fresh believes that the attack shows how vulnerable the Swedish society.
– You want to show who is king of the hill and who controls cyberspace to express themselves a little sloppy, says Göran Frisk.
the submarine hunter compare the attack by Russian former submarine and airplane vomiting of Swedish territory.
– embarking on Sweden in every way possible right now to show who’s boss. This is nothing new. We have previously seen how Russia acted similarly seen when it comes to this type of psychological warfare in connection with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania’s independence processes, says Göran Frisk.
He believes that Saturday’s attack shows how sensitive Sweden, the event of an invasion.
– You want to create uncertainty. Now, however, there is a great awareness among the Swedish people, which means we can control ourselves. But when an emergency situation is extremely serious if a foreign power can shut down the flow of information and thus take the focus away from what is happening. It is important that we learn from what has happened, and provides us countermeasure against it. Should our information flow completely shut down, we end up in a very tricky situation, says Göran Frisk.
Just before the sites stopped working put an anonymous Twitter account out threats of attacks in the coming days: “The coming days will attack that targeted the Swedish authorities and the media who spread false propaganda “, translated into Swedish.
According to data from the government site Krisinformation.se on Twitter, no Swedish authorities have been affected.
Minister Anders Ygeman (S) is deeply concerned by the incident. In a written comment to TT he writes:
“It is deeply worrying that there are forces that want to silence free speech, it is too early to draw far-reaching conclusions from what happened, but this shows the need to develop Swedish IT security. the police have launched an investigation, and government offices following the situation closely and keep me and the government to date. “
the attack on the Swedish media is now being investigated by the national police operational department (NOA).
– the police in Stockholm investigating this. We follow this and are ready to assist them if needed, says Sapo Communications Mark Vadasz said.
Anders Ahlqvist is cybercrime expert national cybercrime center that is part of the NOA. He says that the police now collect information from the affected media IT systems to identify who or what is behind the attack.
– It is a comprehensive work. We have also been in contact with European cybercrime center is a part of Europol to get some of the information and knowledge they can give us about what has happened, says Anders Ahlqvist.
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Ahlqvist confirms that the attack comes from including Russian computers, but stresses that it should not mean that the offender or offenders come from there.
– by pure old policemen experience we know that the offender does not have to come from the direction things clearly pointing. It has used what we call zombie machines. Computers that have been infected and taken over by software to act against the goals you want to access, says Anders Ahlqvist.
Ahlqvist not exclude that there may be more cyber attacks in the near future.
– this the one game between the aggressors and those who become infected. What steps to take and who is taking a new approach, says Anders Ahlqvist.
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