Sweden targeted by massive cyberattack
Occurring on Saturday, it continues to disrupt the services of thousands of businesses and hundreds of public administrations.
He is an IT subcontractor who was targeted for blackmail by a hacker group with ties to Russia.
A major cyberattack targeted Sweden this weekend.
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With our correspondent in Stockholm,
Carlotta Morteo
No fewer than 120 Swedish administrations and nearly 60,000 employees were affected by this cyberattack.
Cinemas, department stores, small businesses... whose online payment systems are blocked.
The centralized human resources system used by all Swedish public services is also paralyzed.
It is impossible, for example, for civil servants to take leave or declare sick leave.
The list of affected organizations has continued to grow since this weekend: the Swedish Defense Academy, universities, the Environment Agency, several Regions, even the administrative services of Parliament are blocked.
The disruption has been going on for three days and given the amount of systems to be restored, it could take time, weeks perhaps, lamented the Swedish-Finnish company Tietoevry which confirmed that the attack came from a group very well organized cybercriminals, called Akira, a group which clearly has links with Russia, a country which turns a blind eye to cybercriminal activities, especially as certain groups actively support the war in Ukraine.
Akira's method in this case is purely pecuniary: steal the data, the group threatens to publish it on the darknet if a ransom is not paid.
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