Sabotage and Terror: Finland complains of UAV reconnaissance and cyberattacks by the Russian Federation

Helsinki stated that Russia conducts large -scale operations of influence against it and other European countries. NATO and Western intelligence services, including Finland, warn that Russia is becoming more and more hostile to the Euro -Atlantic region - from repeated cyberattacks to arson. Official Helsinki associates these acts of sabotage with Moscow, and the Kremlin deny everything. Reuters writes about it. "We are confronted with interruptions, sabotage acts, various types of harm.

This creates a general sense of uncertainty and vagueness as to what is truth and what is not," said Finnish Internal Affairs Minister Lulu early journalists. She reported that the investigation of many cases is ongoing. "However, based on information of both civil and military intelligence, we have clear instructions on Russia," she said, adding that the connection was the most obvious in GPS obstacles that Finland had observed in her maritime and air communications.

"Russia is now a major entity that performs large -scale operations against us," he said earlier. Earlier in October, the Scandinavian utility company Fortum (Fortum. he), stated that it faces cyberattacks in Finland and Sweden daily, and sometimes noticed drones and suspicious persons near their facilities. The satellite connections of its power plants were also broken. The largest creditor of Nordea (ndafi.

he), stated that for several weeks, the company has undergone an unprecedented service for refusing service, which the Director of National Cybersecurity of the Ministry of Transport and Communications Pauli called "extremely unusual". The attacks prompted the National Finland Investigation Bureau on Friday to begin investigating cyberattacks aimed at the financial sector.

Nordea reported in her statement: "A recent DDOS-attack wave, which began in mid-September in Northern Europe, was the most aggressive of all we have ever seen. Attacks have led to temporary slowdown or inaccessibility of online services. " According to the company, she managed to block about 90% of recent attacks on her. Finnish authorities also seek to check all cases of drones near critical infrastructure.

No one has been caught yet, but according to law enforcement officers, a considerable number of thefts were found at water supply facilities when unknown technical equipment was stolen. SUPO stated that Russian intelligence and secret services had to review their operations after European countries have sent more than 700 Russian diplomats in response to the war of Russia in Ukraine. "The Modus of Russian Operanda is becoming more aggressive, they are becoming more and more dangerous.