Norwegian Police Pin Parliament Attack on Fancy Bear
Norwegian police have blamed Russian advanced persistent threat (APT) group Fancy Bear for the summer cyber-attack on Norway s single-chamber parliament, the Storting.
In what was described as a significant attack by the parliament s director, Marianne Andreassen, unauthorized individuals managed to gain access to the email accounts of several elected members of parliament and to some accounts belonging to parliament employees on August 24.
On September 1, the Storting confirmed that a limited number of accounts had been compromised and that varying amounts of data had been downloaded by the attackers. Some of the compromised accounts belonged to members of Norway s main opposition party, the Labour Party.