Norway blames Russian hackers for sabotaging dam

During their control of the dam in Bremanger, west of Norway, on April 7th, hackers opened a gate and released 500 liters of water per second for four hours before the attack was discovered and stopped, authorities had earlier said.

There were no injuries in this attack.

Norway produces most of its electricity through hydroelectric dams, and intelligence authorities have earlier warned of the danger of attacks on the country's energy infrastructure.

“over the past year, we have seen a change in the activities of cyber-prorus actors”, the head of the security police agency, said in a speech, P Norway's ST.

The incident in Bremanger was one of these activities, Gangas added.

The purpose of this type of operation is to influence and cause chaos in the wide population”, she said. Our Russian “

The Russian Embassy in Oslo said Gangana's statements were non-based and politically motivated”.

It is clear that the PST is trying, without success, to support the mythical threat of Russian sabotage to Norwegian infrastructure this year, which it invented in its February [year] report,” is said in a statement to Reuters from the Russian Embassy.

Last September, British intelligence accused Russia of developing an extremely reckless <x0fuces” sabotaging in Europe, in part to intimidate European countries in order to stop helping Ukraine.

Moscow has denied these charges.

After her speech, Gangas told Reuters she spoke publicly about it in order to warn the population and to try to prevent Russia from carrying out new attacks.

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Norway, a NATO member, shares the border with Russia in the Arctic. Like other Nordic countries, it is a strong supporter of Ukraine.

Norway is also the largest gas supplier to Europe, which is mainly transported through a network of pipelines under the North Sea./Periscopi/