Norway comes under sustained digital attack
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London, UK - 10 December 2002, 16:30 GMT - Digital attacks on Norway
are rising fast making this Scandinavian country the 3rd most attacked country
so far in December, behind the US and Brazil. In recent months the number
of overt digital attacks against Norwegian interests crossed 100 and in December
they have reached 276. The average number of overt digital attacks - as opposed
to scans, attempts and covert attacks - against Norwegian online systems have
been about 20 per month.
Brazilian hacking groups are primarily responsible for this activity with
possible motivations being criminal syndicates carrying out identity and credit
card theft as well as software and data piracy. The most active Brazilian
groups attacking Norway have been NHC, rya and r00t_System. The attacked online
systems have been mostly Microsoft Windows - 174 - whilst only 3 were Linux
based.
Norway is one of the most wired countries in the world with dense wireless
and fixed wire "always on" cost effective connectivity available
to small, medium and large businesses as well as most Norwegian homes.
The economic damage of these digital attacks on Norway in December is estimated
at between US $26 to $32 Million by EVEDA. In contrast to Norway, other Scandinavian
countries such as Sweden, Denmark and Finland demonstrated a decline in the
number of digital attacks reported in December.
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EVEDA collects its information from a variety of open sources and calculates
the economic damage associated with a particular digital attack based on a
unique set of algorithms developed by the mi2g SIPS team in conjunction with
risk analysts.
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