Denmark Says Russia Was Behind Two 'Destructive and Disruptive' Cyberattacks (theguardian.com)
(Friday December 19, 2025 @11:54AM (msmash)
from the more-you-know dept.)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/12/19/1356239/denmark-says-russia-was-behind-two-destructive-and-disruptive-cyberattacks
- Source link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/18/denmark-says-russia-was-behind-two-destructive-and-disruptive-cyber-attacks
The Danish government has accused Russia of [1]being behind two "destructive and disruptive" cyberattacks in what it describes as "very clear evidence" of a hybrid war. From a report:
> The Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS) announced on Thursday that Moscow was behind a cyberattack on a Danish water utility in 2024 and a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on Danish websites in the lead-up to the municipal and regional council elections in November.
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> The first, it said, was carried out by the pro-Russian group known as Z-Pentest and the second by NoName057(16), which has links to the Russian state. "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." It added: "The DDIS assesses that the Danish elections were used as a platform to attract public attention -- a pattern that has been observed in several other European elections."
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/18/denmark-says-russia-was-behind-two-destructive-and-disruptive-cyber-attacks
> The Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS) announced on Thursday that Moscow was behind a cyberattack on a Danish water utility in 2024 and a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on Danish websites in the lead-up to the municipal and regional council elections in November.
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> The first, it said, was carried out by the pro-Russian group known as Z-Pentest and the second by NoName057(16), which has links to the Russian state. "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." It added: "The DDIS assesses that the Danish elections were used as a platform to attract public attention -- a pattern that has been observed in several other European elections."
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/18/denmark-says-russia-was-behind-two-destructive-and-disruptive-cyber-attacks
Re: scourge (Score:2)
by drinkypoo ( 153816 )
Now do America.
I don't blame the average Russian for Putin invading Ukraine any more than I blame myself for Trump attacking Venezuela. Or any of the literally dozens of other outright illegal or just obviously bullshit things the US has done during my lifetime.
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by roman_mir ( 125474 )
I don't care about America and if you are an American you should blame yourself, after all, he is your guy in power.
As to ruzzians, these are zombie cocroaches that allowed their dear leader to be in power for the last 25 years because they are all on the dole and their sense of national pride is above any level of human morality.
Yet more Neocon warmongering BS (Score:2)
by Mirnotoriety ( 10462951 )
Do you have to regurgitate that Neocon warmongering BS on slashdot?
And? (Score:4, Insightful)
What will you do about it? Nothing, as usual. You whine and complain Russia is doing this to you, yet you do nothing in return.
Either punch the bully in the teeth with brass knuckles or stop complaining you've been attacked.
As Ukraine has shown, taking the fight to the bully is the only way to get results.
Re: And? (Score:2)
The EU has already frozen 200 Gâ of russian Assets. You can bei sure this hurts Russia a lot.
Re: And? (Score:2)
GigaEuro. Still no unicode, slashdot?
Re: And? (Score:4, Informative)
No, it doesn't. Russia has shown they have a veto power through European courts over what happens to that money. Belgium and Italy gave it to them when they decided they fear Russia more than they like Ukraine. A few other countries in Europe are similarly weak-kneed.
The money the Europeans just approved for Ukraine is a loan and it is backed by the EU. They make reference to the Russian money and say that they will wait two years for Russia to pay reparations....which they know won't happen. The threat is that the EU will come for the money in two years but Russia known that is an empty threat. And Russia doesn't have to worry about Putin's Poodle, the alleged U.S. president, backing the EU.
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Denmark would have to do it through NATO. The problem with that is the U.S. has a Putin Poodle as an alleged president and hence NATO cannot rely upon the U.S. to back them up. Even Putin himself says that Europe is out of step with a Moscow-friendly U.S. So the current U.S. will cede Russian hegemony over Europe, and el Bunko will laugh all the way to the bank. It will be a few years before the price for that capitulation by the U.S. becomes apparent, but that will be after el Bunko is gone and his Maggots
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Denmark would have to do it through NATO.
No they don't. They are free to defend themselves without NATO. Which, like the rest of Europe, won't do.
Not sure where this fear of defending oneself came from, but Europe needs to get its head out of its ass and start taking action. Ukraine's shoulders are getting tired carrying the load for them.
Re: And? (Score:2)
What was the point of a defense treaty? I forgot.
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They are free to defend themselves without NATO and then they are free to get squashed like a bug by Russia because the U.S. and NATO won't be behind them.
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erm ... the us and nato have been trying to beat russia for nearly 4 years now. spoiler: it isn't going well. europe in this context is just a rabid chihuahua digging its own grave, and denmark is irrelevant.
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It's not so simple though since Russia (like a little bitch) constantly threatens with it's nuclear arsenal. It's a bitch move because they, Europe and the world knows if they did not have that nuclear threat they would have easily been pushed out of Ukraine by now.
It's easy to say oh Denmark can just go it alone when they have to face the choice to their people and Europe and the world of "Oh, don't worry, Putin is probably bluffing, only like a 15% of nuclear strikes!"
That's why the decision to enter the
Re: And? (Score:2)
Hell, their forces aren't even up to taking Ukraine, they've had to bring in mercs from afar.
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> As Ukraine has shown, taking the fight to the bully is the only way to get results.
quite impressive results: get your country wrecked, losing probably a 40% of it, over a million casualties, several million people fleeing the country (most not to ever return), bankruptcy and nearly all energy infrastructure and industry wiped out, and the grim prospect of ceasing to exist as a viable nation state.
was playing the nato game worth it? i can imagine a lot of other actions that would have led to very different outcomes.
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As my other comment noted if Russia didn't have those nukes and constantly threaten their use Zelenskyy could be sipping tea on Lenin's grave by now.
The fact the supposed 3rd strongest military couldn't handle their smaller, poorer, less trained neighbors in 4 years of open combat and another 7 of paramilitary operations doesn't really speak well.
"We cheated and were only able to get basically a stalemate"
Also Ukraine didn't get to play the NATO game. Ask the Baltics how they feel about playing it, pretty
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> As my other comment noted if Russia didn't have those nukes
well, if you take on a country that has nukes ... what are you thinking? btw, the nukes are still there but russia won't probably need them unless they see nukes flying towards them. they have better options now.
> The fact the supposed 3rd strongest military couldn't handle their smaller, poorer, less trained neighbors in 4 years of open combat
smaller, yes, but as a matter of fact the russian army was in a quite sorry state and far less trained in 2022 as the ukranian army, which had been propped up by nato for 10 years. part of the problem, actually. things have changed, though, little is left of those early ukranian troops and russia di
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> well, if you take on a country that has nukes ... what are you thinking? btw, the nukes are still there but russia won't probably need them unless they see nukes flying towards them. they have better options now.
Hey thanks for admitting Russia is hiding behind their nukes. This is just justifying it.
> which had been propped up by nato for 10 years.
Ooof, you got it bad buddy. Go watch another Mearshimer video, jeez this is sooooo post-hoc. (btw this just isn't really true, actually the opposite is true)
> it indeed did. all it had to do was to stay neutral, which had worked fine for more than 2 decades. but they chose to play the game suggested by their western "friends".
Oh so the Ukrainian people should just not get to choose if they want to trade with the EU, they just always and forever have to enjoin with whatever Russia want's because... let me guess, they have nukes and will cry with bullets if they don't get their way.
> they can do as they wish. they do seem eager to play the game, though. it wouldn't end well either, and they would also find out that staying neutral was the better and more sane idea.
Uhhh..
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What results did Ukraine get?
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They're still independent, that's a good result (for them).