Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-03-19 00:00:00
Affected organization: Aftonbladet
Affected country: Sweden
Industry: Information
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service
Motive: Sabotage
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: A threat actor launched a denial of service attack on nine news websites in Sweden, triggering a local police investigation. U.S. diplomatic cables later revealed that the United States suspected that Russia was responsible for the incident.