Svenska kraftnat (Sweden power grid) confirms data breach — Everest ransomware
·Nation-stateHigh
Sweden's national power grid operator confirmed that the ransomware group Everest had breached its systems and exfiltrated data. The electricity supply was not affected, but sensitive operational and employee data was exposed.
Deception angle
Critical infrastructure operators are high-value targets where dwell time is long. A decoy server inside the OT or corporate network segment — posing as an engineering workstation or historian — catches lateral movement in an environment where every touch is abnormal.
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