Dec. 19 (UPI) -- The Danish government Friday said that Russia is behind two cyberattacks in 2024 and this year that were "destructive and disruptive."
The Danish Defense Intelligence Service said it determined that Russia was behind a cyberattack on a Danish water utility in 2024 and a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks on Danish websites before the 2025 municipal and regional council elections in the country, the agency said in a press release.
The water-utility attack, the release said, was done by a pro-Russian group called Z-Pentest, and the DDoS attacks were carried out by NoName057(16), which also has ties to Russia.
"The Russian state uses both groups as instruments of its hybrid war against the west," DDIS said in a statement. "The aim is to create insecurity in the targeted countries and to punish those that support Ukraine. Russia's cyber operations form part of a broader influence campaign intended to undermine western support for Ukraine."
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