In a recent announcement by the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST), The Norway’s national domestic intelligence and security service National Threat Assessment 2020, 17 June 2020 and with a publication date of 5 November 2020, reference is made to attempts to access sources of information through cyber-attacks.
The information concerns Norway’s planning and decisions on the energy sector and whether transitional actions towards the production of energy from Renewable Energy Sources will be accelerated.
PST believes that the use of financial tools and online businesses by hackers will increase in the next eighteen months.
The report goes on to refer to the fact that spies monitor oil and gas technologies that could be used for political and military purposes with the aim of obtaining trade secrets relating to any details of Norway’s plans involving new exploration licenses or arrangements related to oil production.
In 2014, Norway and more than fifty Norwegian oil and gas companies were the subject of this cyberattack.
PST shows that behind these efforts are the services of Russia and China and other countries with huge technological and human resources.
A similar horrific cyber-attack took place three months ago (September 8, 2020) in Greece and specifically in the largest telecommunications provider that is of German interest.
During this attack, her clients’ call records and databases were extracted.
The aim in this case was specific government agencies and specific officials of the Greek state and concerned the Greek government’s intentions to grant new permits in 2021, as well as the confidential results of investigations to find natural gas and oil in the Western, Southern, Northern and Central maritime region of Greece.
The exploitation capacity of Greece’s marine areas in terms of oil and gas extraction would give the EU a comparative advantage and a great opportunity to meet its needs.
The investigation continues without showing specific countries (perhaps because they do not want to blame countries) as Norway has done.
