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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Claudia Ciobanu and Emma Burrows

SHOCKING: Sweden blames pro russian group for cyberattack last year on its energy infrastructure | Mind Blowing Facts

Sweden Cyber Attack - (Claudio Bresciani/TT)

Sweden said Wednesday that a pro-Russian group with links to Russia’s security and intelligence services was behind a cyberattack on a heating plant last year. The announcement followed warnings from officials in Poland, Norway, Denmark and Latvia that Russia is attacking critical infrastructure across Europe.

In what was Sweden’s first public mention of the attack, the country's minister for civil defense, Carl-Oskar Bohlin, said it targeted a heating plant in western Sweden but the attack failed. He gave no further details.

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