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Coop, one of Sweden's largest supermarket chains, said it is dealing with a cyberattack affecting stores in the county of Värmland.  A ransomware gang named Cactus claimed it attacked the company on 29 December and in a statement to Recorded Future News, a spokesperson explained that Coop Värmland was the target of the attack.

Coop runs consumer cooperative-owned grocery stores throughout Sweden, and Coop Värmland is collectively owned by that county’s nearly 300,000 residents.  The Värmland bra

Finland’s parliament website was temporarily shut down on Tuesday, 9 August, following a cyber-attack that coincided with the US’s move to admit the Nordic country to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).  The Finnish parliament said in a statement on Twitter that a denial-of-service attack hit the parliament’s external websites at around 2:30 pm local time.  “The Parliament takes steps to limit the attack together with service providers and the Cybersecurity Center,” the statement said

Cybersecurity researchers have detailed the various measures ransomware actors have taken to obscure their true identity online as well as the hosting location of their web server infrastructure.  Most ransomware operators use hosting providers outside their country of origin (such as Sweden, Germany, and Singapore) to host their ransomware operations sites.  The actors use VPS hop-points as a proxy to hide their true location when they connect to their ransomware web infrastructure for remote a