Fewer cyber attacks in Sweden after joining NATO
- Cyber attacks and influence campaigns against Sweden have decreased since the country joined Nato, several cyber security experts confirm to Swedish Radio News.
- “It was maybe more important to them to try to influence our decision than it was to try to make us feel stupid for joining Nato,” says Marcus Murray, a cybersecurity specialist at the company Truesec.
- And according to Sweden’s Psychological Defence Agency, influence campaigns originating from Iran have clearly decreased after Sweden freed convicted war criminal Hamid Noury, as part of a prisoner swap between the two countries.
For more on the changing cyber landscape in Sweden, listen to Radio Sweden’s full report.
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