{"id":186879,"date":"2025-08-14T18:32:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/norway-spy-chief-blames-russian-hackers-for-hijacking-dam-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T18:32:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:32:02","slug":"norway-spy-chief-blames-russian-hackers-for-hijacking-dam-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/norway-spy-chief-blames-russian-hackers-for-hijacking-dam-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway spy chief blames Russian hackers for hijacking dam | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russian hackers briefly hijacked a dam in Norway in early April and spilled millions of gallons of water before the attack was stopped, Norway\u2019s spy chief revealed Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hackers opened a floodgate at the Bremanger dam in western Norway to release the equivalent of about three Olympic-sized swimming pools of water during the four hours they had control of the dam\u2019s computer systems.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beate Gangaas, the head of Norway\u2019s security police service, blamed the cyberattack on Russian hackers during a speech on Thursday, first reported <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www-vg-no.translate.goog\/nyheter\/i\/mPJaE4\/pst-sjefen-mener-pro-russiske-hackere-sto-bak-cyberangrepet-mot-damanlegget-i-bremanger?_x_tr_sl=en&amp;_x_tr_tl=fr&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp\" target=\"_blank\">by Norwegian media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Russian embassy reportedly denied involvement in the breach, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/norway-spy-chief-blames-russian-hackers-dam-sabotage-april-2025-08-13\/\" target=\"_blank\">per Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the latest incident allegedly involving Russian hackers sabotaging Western energy systems in recent years. Russia was <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/sandworm-russia-ukraine-blackout-gru\/\" target=\"_blank\">previously blamed<\/a> for cyberattacks on Ukraine\u2019s power grid that led to widespread blackouts in 2015 and 2016. Russia-backed hackers have <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/04\/09\/triton-malware-strike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">long targeted the energy sector<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/08\/14\/norway-spy-chief-blames-russian-hackers-for-hijacking-dam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian hackers briefly hijacked a dam in Norway in early April and spilled millions of gallons of water before the attack was stopped, Norway\u2019s spy chief revealed Thursday. The hackers opened a floodgate at the Bremanger dam in western Norway to release the equivalent of about three Olympic-sized swimming pools of water during the four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":186880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-186879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}