Cyber Criminals Exploit Minnesota Attorney General to Scam Swedes

Cyber crooks are taking advantage of Minnesota’s connection to Sweden to steal from its citizens by using state’s Attorney General Lori Swanson’s name to lure potential victims into believing they have inherited money or property from a long-lost relative in the North Star State.

According to Star Tribune, Swanson’s office says the email is written in Swedish and claims to come from Attorney General Swanson but it instructs…

Hackers Target Swedish Minister’s Blog with Ads for Russian Brides

When ads for Russian brides and motivational speakers temporarily appeared on Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt’s blog, the minister commented it was the work of hackers.

“There is apparently some hacking going on,” he told news agency TT when asked if he had started selling ad space on the blog, where he comments on foreign affairs and other current events.

TT reported that an ad …

UK Preps for Possible Cyber Attacks as Assange Eyes Prison Gate

In the wake of large-scale online attacks on U.S. companies, such as MasterCard and Visa, which pulled support from whistle-blower site WikiLeaks, the British government is hunkering down over fears of similarly disruptive Internet activity on U.K. sites, a New Zealand newspaper reported.

The New Zealand Herald reports…

Expert: Sweden Stands No Chance against Attack of Stuxnet Magnitude

Sweden would never have been able to protect itself against a worm like Stuxnet, and an attack by a similarly complex malware on the kingdom’s critical infrastructure would have had devastating–even fatal–consequences, warns a cybersecurity expert.

TrueSec‘s security expert Marcus Murray told Dagens Nyheter the 1.18 megabyte virus that infected personal…

Swedish Political Party Sites Hit by Hackers

Several websites of Swedish political parties were recently hacked and targeted by cyber attacks, according to a Swedish news wire.

On Aug. 23, a spokesman for the nationalist party Sweden Democrats said its website had crashed due to DDoS attacks. The party’s IT department was working on gathering as much information about the attack to file a police report, he said.

A few days later, the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League…

Swedish Online Network Cyber Attacked

IDG, a Swedish online network with more than 25 technology-, IT- and business-related websites, suffered a cyber attack Wednesday, according to ComputerSweden.

All sites belonging to the network crashed as result of a botnet targeting the whole network, as well as the internal one. The first signs of the cyber attack emerged around 10 p.m. After hours of intense work, the sites were back up the following day.

An IP-address originating…

Sweden Hit by DDoS Attacks

Approximately 40 web pages in Sweden were subjected to distributed denial of service attacks late last week.

A number of media websites were attacked along with a police website.

The attacks brought down the majority of the websites for a few hours. Each of the media companies that were affected rent server space from the same Swedish provider.

Investigators have not been able to attribute the attack to any specific…