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Denmark blames Russia for cyberattacks on water utility that left houses without water (apnews.com)
submitted 4 days ago by Sepia@mander.xyz to c/europe@feddit.org
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Russia carried out cyberattacks against infrastructure and websites in Denmark in 2024 and 2025, Danish authorities say in a new assessment published this week describing new cases not previously reported.

Moscow was responsible for “destructive and disruptive” cyberattacks on a Danish water utility company in 2024 and a series of denial of service attacks which overwhelmed Danish websites ahead of regional and local elections last month, Denmark’s Defense Intelligence Service said in a statement Thursday. The water company said the attack caused pipes to burst, leaving homes temporarily without water.

Jan Hansen, the head of the Tureby Alkestrup Waterworks southwest of the capital Copenhagen, said his advice to other companies was not to cut costs on cybersecurity and to take out cyber insurance. The attack happened, he said, because the waterworks switched to cheaper cybersecurity, which was not as secure as that previously.

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The Danish intelligence service said the attacks were part of Russia’s “hybrid war” against the West and an attempt to create instability. It said Moscow’s cyberattacks are part of a broader campaign to undermine and punish countries which support Ukraine. Russian hackers have previously been accused of carrying out hacks on other water facilities in Europe — including on a Norwegian dam where Norwegian authorities said hackers opened valves to allow water to pour out.

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[–] kossa@feddit.org 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Now eberybody with me: 'cyber' atrribution is near impossible. It might have been Russia, it might have been China camouflaging as Russia. It might have been Ethiopia camouflaging as Germany camouflaging as USA camouflaging as China camouflaging as Russia. You never can tell certainly if you're not able to look the hacker over the shoulder while doing it.

The only lesson you can take away: secure your shit, make it have a fallover. An IT outtake should never be the end of water supply. Next time it's not a hacker but a plain ol' software bug killing your water supply. So secure shit, make it harder for perpetrators to attack it and make it have an analogue fallover. It's not like Russia has or can pay millions of well educated hacking soldiers. So, to be a threat at scale they need unsecure systems on the other side. And you can do something about that.

[–] Sepia@mander.xyz 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Sure, we need to secure our system. But there are malign state actors - particularly Russia and China - attacking European systems. And their interference is not limited to cyber activities.

[Edit typo.]