20-05-11 Cyber Attack against Norwegian Armed Forces

The Norwegian Armed Forces exposed to a massive cyber attack after the Norwegian fighter jets has participated in the bombing of Libya.The attack happened through an e-mail sent to several hundred selected employees.It was reported that the e-mail was written in good Norwegian,and the sender was apparently a Norwegian directorate.The email was not official,and the attached file to it was a computer virus that is activated with opening of the attachment for paving the way for hackers against the computer of the the Armed Forces,wrote VG.We see this as a targeted cyber attack against the Armed Forces.The attempt came shortly after the decision to send Norwegian troops to the operation in Libya ,"said Maj.Ivar Kjaerem,Section Chief of the Armed Forces Center for protection of critical information (FSKI).Currently,the military does not know who was behind the attack.