Pro-Russian hackers claim responsibility for major cyberattack on Norway’s public digital services

A pro-Russian hacker group, Server Killers, has claimed responsibility for a major cyberattack targeting multiple Norwegian government digital services over the past three days. The denial-of-service attacks, which began on Monday, caused significant disruptions to the services, including a single login system used across public services.

Despite the attacks, the Norwegian Digitalization Agency, Digdir, managed to keep the services operational "practically all the time." The hacker group cited Norway's renewed security cooperation with Ukraine, announced by Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre during a visit to Kyiv, as the reason for their declaration of cyber war on Norway. Norwegian officials have not commented on the hackers' claim as of publication time.

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