{"id":117797,"date":"2023-10-18T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T06:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/finland-faces-growing-russian-online-threat-finnish-security-services-say\/"},"modified":"2023-10-18T09:10:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T06:10:00","slug":"finland-faces-growing-russian-online-threat-finnish-security-services-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/finland-faces-growing-russian-online-threat-finnish-security-services-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland faces growing Russian online threat, Finnish security services say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117797\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Finland has had increased online espionage attempts from Russia since Vladimir Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, security services have said. Supo, the Finnish security and intelligence service, said the country faced various threats from Russia, including cyberattacks and disinformation. Last week, Supo said Russia was one of the most active perpetrators of intelligence operations targeting Finland, amid increased tensions after the country\u2019s accession to Nato and the war in Ukraine. \u201cRussia\u2019s espionage attempts towards us have increased during the war, mainly in the cybersphere,\u201d said Suvi Alvari, a senior analyst for Supo.<\/p>\n<p>Russia is understood to be shifting the focus of its intelligence collection to online activities after the expulsion of several diplomats from Helsinki. In June, the Finnish president announced the country was expelling nine people from the Russian embassy, saying \u201ctheir actions [were] contrary to the Vienna convention on diplomatic relations\u201d. Norway and Sweden have also expelled Russians in recent months amid claims they were intelligence officers. \u201cThere are quite a few immediate security issues or threats from Russia at this moment,\u201d Alvari said. \u201cWe see that Russia has increased motivation for intelligence towards us.\u201d Further cyberattacks were likely, she added.<\/p>\n<p>Significant areas of interest include Finnish Nato membership, support for Ukraine, and sanctions evasion through Finland. \u201cIt\u2019s obvious Russia has the capability in the cybersphere so we\u2019re prepared,\u201d she said. \u201cWe assess that it\u2019s likely that Russia will continue to use denial of service attacks [when hackers make information systems, devices and other resources inaccessible to legitimate users] towards us.\u201d The aim of such attacks was \u201cto create an image of malfunctioning services\u201d, Alvari said. \u201cBut we assess that it\u2019s unlikely that Russia would try to physically harm our critical infrastructure on Finnish soil in the near future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sweden said on Monday that it was facing increased threats of cyberwarfare from Russia and other state actors. The Swedish armed forces\u2019 cyberdefence chief, Maj Gen Johan Pekkari, told the broadcaster SVT that the country was experiencing \u201cincreased activity in the cyber domain\u201d and preparing to protect critical infrastructure from future cyberattacks.<\/p>\n<p>In Finland, Alvari said the biggest change in relations with Russia since Finland joined Nato this year was \u201cRussia\u2019s attitude towards us \u2013 how Russia is speaking to us in public\u201d. Before Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, she said, the two countries had \u201cfunctional relations\u201d, but now \u201cRussia considers us an unfriendly country [which] is something we haven\u2019t had for decades\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>With elections in Russia and Finland expected next spring, security services will be on guard for potential interference. But Supo has not so far seen any signs of it happening. Alvari said disinformation was used to project a negative image of Finland in state-run Russian media, to which Finland\u2019s 80,000-strong Russian-speaking population could be vulnerable. \u201cRussia wants to weaken the image of Finland in the eyes of its population and that\u2019s why there\u2019s a lot of negative reporting about us,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Finnish investigators said they could not rule out \u201ca state actor\u201d being responsible for damage to an undersea gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea. Putin has rejected any claim that Russia was behind it as \u201crubbish\u201d. In a statement released on Monday night, Finland\u2019s national bureau of investigation said its work was ongoing and that there were \u201cstill several lines of investigation\u201d. Then, on Tuesday, the Swedish authorities revealed that an undersea telecommunications cable between their country and Estonia had also been damaged. Sweden\u2019s civil defence minister, Carl-Oskar Bohlin, said the cause was unclear.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/18\/finland-faces-growing-russian-online-threat-finnish-security-services-say\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/finland-faces-growing-russian-online-threat-finnish-security-services-say\/\">Finland faces growing Russian online threat, Finnish security services say<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[586,2603,923,956,9378,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-117797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-finland","tag-growing","tag-online","tag-russian","tag-threath","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}