The minister said a group with links to Russian intelligence targeted a heating plant in western Sweden in spring 2025. The facility’s security systems stopped the attack, he added, declining to name the plant in question or give further details.
Norway and Denmark have faced similar challenges, Bohlin said. “Taken together, this points to a change toward riskier and more reckless behavior which could potentially lead to damaging effects for society.”
A group tied to Russian intelligence was blamed for a large-scale attempted attack on Poland’s power grid in December 2025 — one of the most significant strikes on the country’s energy infrastructure in years.
Western agencies this month also exposed a sweeping campaign by the GRU-linked hacking group Fancy Bear, which infiltrated poorly secured Wi-Fi routers to siphon off passwords, emails and sensitive data from governments and militaries across Europe and North America.