Security News > 2021 > March > Finland IDs Hackers Linked to Parliament Spying Attack
Finland's domestic security agency said Thursday that the cybergroup APT31, which is generally linked to the Chinese government, was likely behind a cyberspying attack on the information systems of the Nordic country's parliament.
The Finnish Security and Intelligence Service, known by the abbreviation Supo, said it had "Identified a cyber espionage operation targeted in 2020 against parliament with the aim of intruding into parliament's IT systems."
Parliament has since upgraded the systems' security features.
FireEye, one of the world's major cybersecurity firms, and other data security firms have linked APT31 to the Chinese government or operations conducted on its orders.
The agency has earlier named China and Russia as being the most active countries spying on Finland.
The parliament of Norway, Finland's Nordic neighbor, was hit by a cyberattack last year that the country's domestic security agency said was probably done by the hacking group APT28, which has been linked to Russia's GRU military intelligence agency.
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