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"We
identified a weakness in the platform of one of our suppliers.
That weakness has now been shut," Erik Hope, head of the
government agency in charge of providing services to ministries,
told a news conference.
The attack was identified due to "unusual" traffic on the
supplier's platform, Hope said, declining to provide specifics.
It was uncovered on July 12 and was being investigated by
police.
"It is too early to say who is back this and what is the extent
of the impact (of the attack)," he said.
Norway is Europe's largest gas supplier after a drop in Russian
gas flows and Western Europe's largest oil exporter.
The PM's office as well as the foreign, defense, justice
ministries were not affected because they use a different IT
platform, said Hope.
Norway's state sector has been hit by cyber attacks previously,
including in June 2022, when a so-called distributed
denial-of-service (DDoS) attack took place, blamed on a
"criminal pro-Russian group".
NATO-member Norway shares a border with Russia in the Arctic and
supports Ukraine with weapons, humanitarian aid and money.
The number of cyber attacks tripled between 2019 and 2021, the
country's cyber security agency said in its latest risk
assessment report in February, with the number of serious
incidents in 2022 at the same level as in 2021.
(Reporting by Gwladys Fouche, editing by Louise Rasmussen and
Terje Solsvik)
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