In February 2017, the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) announced that the Russian hacker group Cozy Bear, or APT29, which is connected to the Federal Security Service (FSB) and Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), targeted civil servants’ e-mail accounts and Norway’s Labor Party in a large-scale cyberattack launched in fall 2016. Cozy Bear employed spearphishing techniques in an effort to compromise nine webmail accounts belonging to Norwegian civil servants. Labor party spokesman Martin Bernsen told reporters that an unidentified foreign intelligence service alerted the Norwegian government to the ongoing Russian cyberattack.