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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent

Denmark says Russia was behind two ‘destructive and disruptive’ cyber-attacks

Torsten Schack Pedersen at a press conference on cyberattacks against Denmark
Torsten Schack Pedersen, the minister for resilience and preparedness, said Denmark is not sufficiently equipped to withstand such attacks from Russia. Photograph: Nils Meilvang/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP/Getty Images

The Danish government has accused Russia of being behind two “destructive and disruptive” cyber-attacks in what it describes as “very clear evidence” of a hybrid war.

The Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS) announced on Thursday that Moscow was behind a cyber-attack on a Danish water utility in 2024 and a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on Danish websites in the lead-up to the municipal and regional council elections in November.

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