Did Swedish airports suffer from cosmic storms or a large scale APT attach? The Swedish authorities report that it was a natural event however Swedish media think otherwise.
Despite being initially blamed on a cosmic storm, a service outage in Sweden late last year may have been a co-ordinated attack Reports of a cyber-attack are currently being investigated by the Swedish civil aviation administration, the LFV The Swedish civil aviation administration, the Luftfartsverket (LFV) may have been the victim of a large APT attack. In early November last year, air traffic control centres around Sweden went down. Worryingly, the problem meant that air traffic controllers at Arlanda, Landvetter and Bromma airports couldnt see airplane traffic on their screens. Of course, this resulted in the cancellation of many flights.