Security News > 2020 > December > Norway: Russian APT28 state hackers likely behind Parliament attack
Russian-backed hacking group APT28 has likely brute-forced multiple Norwegian Parliament email accounts on August 24, 2020, according to the Norwegian Police Security Service.
One month later, Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs Ine Eriksen Søreide shared additional info on the August Parliament attack saying that Russian hackers were responsible for the breach.
The Norwegian Police Security Service now says that it discovered after a coordinated investigation with the Joint Cyber Coordination Center that the Russian state-sponsored APT28 hacking group was likely behind the August 2020 Stortinget attack.
The Council of the European Union also announced sanctions in October against multiple APT28 members for their involvement in the 2015 hack of the German Federal Parliament.
Just as in the attack against the Stortinget, the Deutscher Bundestag attack affected the parliament's operation for several days in April and May, and to the compromise of several parliament members' email accounts.
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