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There are a lot of scam messages in circulation at the moment as criminals try to access Finnish personal data. The Kanta Services will never contact users by email or text message to ask for their information. The only way to log in securely to the My Kanta Pages is to go to www.kanta.fi
At present there is an unusual number of scam messages in circulation claiming to be from the Kanta Services and trying to access people’s personal data.
April 12, 2021 Share
The Finnish security and intelligence service (Suojelupoliisi: SUPO) made a rare appeal to the public to bolster cyber-security efforts on March 10. The organization had noted an increase in cyber espionage utilizing Finnish infrastructure to give the appearance that an attack had originated in Finland. The SUPO stated that the cyber espionage divisions of intelligence services in authoritarian states, in particular, have manipulated hundreds of network devices and servers owned by individuals and companies in Finland by connecting them into an espionage infrastructure.
As a result, the SUPO urged the general public to improve router protection by restricting external access to the router control panel through the internet, modifying default passwords, closing unused open ports, and upgrading router firmware. In the past five years, overall cyber has been of increasing importance in espionage activities. There has been a marked increase, especially in