Sweden Sees Russia Intensifying Cyber Attacks on Infrastructure

Russia’s intelligence services are now seeking to damage European infrastructure with cyber attacks rather than merely overwhelm websites with excess traffic, Swedish Civil Defense Minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin said.

“Over the past year, Russia’s methods have shifted,” Bohlin said during a news conference in Stockholm on Wednesday. “Pro-Russian groups that once carried out denial-of-service attacks are now attempting destructive cyber attacks against organizations in Europe.”