{"id":347,"date":"2020-10-14T11:20:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T11:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/?p=1323324"},"modified":"2020-10-14T11:20:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T11:20:49","slug":"norway-blames-russian-hackers-for-parliament-email-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=347","title":{"rendered":"Norway blames Russian hackers for parliament email breach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image\/tnw?filter_last=1&amp;fit=1280%2C640&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2020%2F10%2Fnorway.png&amp;signature=db8402ff3da557b5cd89fbf5baeec36a\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Norway is the latest country to accuse Russia of infiltrating its systems. Government officials claim Russian state-sponsored hackers were behind a breach of its parliament\u2018s email system which was disclosed back in August.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a very serious incident, affecting our most important democratic institution,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.regjeringen.no\/en\/aktuelt\/datainnbruddet-i-stortinget\/id2770135\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> Norway Foreign Affairs Minister Ine Eriksen S\u00f8reide. \u201cBased on the information the government has, it is our view that Russia is responsible for these activities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Embassy in Washington, DC hasn\u2019t yet addressed the allegations, but the Embassy in Oslo has downplayed the claims as&nbsp;<span>\u201cunacceptable\u201d and \u201cdestructive for bilateral relations,\u201d CyberScoop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberscoop.com\/norway-russia-parliament-hack-espionage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">notes<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Although Norway\u2018s allegations didn\u2019t come with any technical evidence, the country is part of the&nbsp;North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a security bloc which Vladimir Putin has previously described as a threat to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Details about the hacking incident remain scarce, with Norway\u2018s security and intelligence services still investigating the breach, according to&nbsp;<span>S\u00f8reide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The accusation escalates an already tense relationship between the two countries. Back in August, Norway <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/3f425dcf6c3ea60ae9209929219a502f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">expelled<\/a> a Russian diplomat because of his alleged connection to an espionage case. In return, Russian expelled a Norwegian diplomat a few days later.<\/p>\n<p>Russian has often been suspected in attempting to infiltrate various governments across the globe. In 2016, the US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2016\/oct\/07\/us-russia-dnc-hack-interfering-presidential-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">accused<\/a> the country of hacking its Democratic National Committee and interfering in its elections.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, government officials from the US, the UK, and Canada <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/47797e89ddb470b3244fae3a799481c5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">alleged<\/a> Russian state-sponsored hackers were trying to steal valuable private information about coronavirus vaccine trials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-article-read-next\"> <b>Read next:<\/b> <a class=\"gtm-article-read-next\" data-event-category=\"Article\" data-event-action=\"Next post\" data-event-label data-event-non-interaction=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/neural\/2020\/10\/14\/alphabet-x-has-built-a-plant-buggy-a-cute-lil-ai-farmer\/\"> Alphabet X has built a \u2018plant buggy\u2019 \u2014 a cute AI farmer <\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/security\/2020\/10\/14\/norway-email-brach-russian-hackers\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norway is the latest country to accuse Russia of infiltrating its systems. Government officials claim Russian state-sponsored hackers were behind a breach of its parliament\u2018s email system which was disclosed back in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}