Sweden says Iran behind 2023 hacker attack that urged revenge for Quran burning
A crowd outside the Swedish embassy in Baghdad protested over the burning of the Quran by an Iraqi living in Sweden .
Sweden's intelligence service Sapo said it had determined that a hacker group had acted"on behalf of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard to carry out an influence campaign." "The aim was, among other things, to paint the picture of Sweden as an Islamophobic country, Fredrik Hallstrom, chief of operations at Sapo, said in a statement.On 1 August 2023, Swedish media reported that a large number of people had received text messages calling for revenge against people who had burned the Muslim holy book, the authority noted.
In August last year, Sweden's intelligence service Sapo raised its threat level to four on a scale of five after a series of protests that included Quran burnings had made the country a"prioritised target".
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