8.4.2026 | The Finnish Security and Intelligence Service and the National Cyber Security Centre Finland at Traficom warn people in Finland about Russia’s practice of exploiting poorly secured home routers and other network devices for cyber espionage.

Cyber espionage is a potent and inexpensive way to access a significant volume of information that is intended to be confidential. State-sponsored cyber espionage operations also exploit the network devices of Finnish individuals and companies in their operations.

The security clearance procedure seeks to prevent activities that endanger national security or significant private economic interests and business security. Supo conducts both personnel and facility security clearances.

Cyber espionage operations are often named with the abbreviation APT, together with a number combination.

10.3.2026 | Russia strives to increase its intelligence capability in Finland when the war in Ukraine eventually comes to an end. Post-war Russia is expected to be willing to restore its relations with Western countries, including Finland. However, its superpower aspirations will remain unchanged.

Russia and China continue to actively engage in intelligence and influencing activities against Finland.

Russia and China continue to actively engage in intelligence and influencing activities against Finland.

In recent years, Finnish start-ups have been targeted by numerous successful cyber espionage operations. When innovations leak to Russia or China, the company loses the foundation of its future – and, at the same time, Finland’s national interests are affected. Security awareness can be turned into a competitive advantage.

29.8.2025 | Over the past year, the cyber security threat level in Finland has remained elevated. The threat level increased in 2022 after Russia launched its large-scale attack against Ukraine.

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Retaining critical data in cloud services creates risks to data availability and information security. Finnish society is increasingly dependent on data centres located in other parts of the world.

The Finnish Security and Intelligence Service (Supo) is an agency of the Ministry of the Interior that operates in Finland and abroad. Its mission is to ward off and combat the most serious threats to national security.

Policymaking and businesses that develop high-tech products are targets of foreign espionage.

Supo's mission is to ward off and combat the most serious threats to national security, such as terrorism and illegal intelligence by foreign states against Finland.

Intelligence is unique information managed by Supo in serving top-level national government. Only Supo may apply civilian intelligence gathering methods in Finland. Civilian intelligence operations only target phenomena that seriously jeopardise national security.

15.12.2025 | Russia and China will not shy away from using any means available in the competition for innovations of even Finnish companies in current key technologies and future disruptive technologies.

Recruitment is a multi-stage process, whereby an intelligence agent consciously builds a relationship with the target.

27.2.2026 | National Security Overview 2021 NATIONAL SECURITY OVERVIEW 2021 Summary of the overview Intelligence and influencing operations targeting Finland Intelligence services seek to use embedded human intelligence sources to obtain reliable and forward-...

27.2.2026 | National Security Overview 2025 THE GLOBAL SECURITY ENVIRONMENT AND FINLAND ESPIONAGE AND INFLUENCING TERRORISM THE YEAR AT SUPO 2 A grim security situation has given intelligence a key role in foreign and security policy 6 China strengthens its p...

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