The Norwegian government announced on Monday that 12 government ministries had been the target of a cyberattack, the most recent to target the public sector of Europe’s largest gas supplier and NATO’s northernmost member.
“We discovered a flaw in one of our vendors’ platform. Erik Hope, the head of the government organisation in charge of providing services to ministries, announced during a press conference that this weakness has now been closed.
The supplier’s platform’s “unusual” traffic led to the identification of the assault, according to Hope, who declined to disclose more details. It was discovered on July 12 and the police were looking into it read more Norway government ministries hit by cyber attack.