Russia hits European thermal power plant in attempted destructive cyberattack
Pro-Kremlin hackers are engaging in riskier and more reckless behavior in latest attempt to cripple Western critical infrastructure

Date:
Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:25:00 +0000

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A thermal power plant in Sweden was hit by an attempted 'destructive' cyber attack, and Russia has been blamed.

FULL STORY
Russia is engaging in 'riskier and more reckless behavior' -- Russian
hackers have once again been blamed for a cyberattack against a European
power plant.

The Swedish government accused Pro-Russian hackers of trying to knock one of Swedens thermal power plants offline. Pro-Russian groups that once carried
out denial-of-service attacks are now attempting destructive cyber attacks against organizations in Europe, Carl-Oskar Bohlin, Swedens minister of civil defense, said during a press conference. The Swedish
government said that the attackers had connections to Russian intelligence
and security services, with the attack showing Russia-aligned groups were engaging in riskier and more reckless behavior.

The thermal power plant involved in the attack was not named, but Bohlin
added the attack was stopped due to a built-in protection mechanism.

Russia has been accused of multiple attacks against European critical infrastructure, with attacks growing more frequent since the outbreak of war with Ukraine in February 2022.

In the January before the invasion of Ukraine, a large-scale attack launched by members of Russias Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (GRU) that targeted government agencies and infrastructure as a precursor to the main invasion.

Russias GRU has also been accused of launching widespread campaigns to infiltrate Western critical infrastructure since 2021, likely with the intention of maintaining persistence until the perfect time to strike.

More recently, researchers found links between an attack that attempted to shut down Polands energy system and a Russia-aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) group.

But Russia strikes far further than Europe, and has been spotted probing US critical infrastructure for vulnerabilities, including attacks against American water treatment facilities , the US Federal Court Filing System ,
and a campaign that saw the email accounts of officials working across
several US federal agencies breached .

Via TechCrunch

Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/russia-hits-european-thermal-power-plan t-in-attempted-destructive-cyberattack-pro-kremlin-hackers-are-engaging-in-ris kier-and-more-reckless-behavior-in-latest-attempt-to-cripple-western-critical- infrastructure

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