Iceland fell victim to the largest phishing campaign to target the nation, a complex scheme which involved impersonating law enforcement officers.
The attack was tailored specifically for Icelanders and used a homograph trick to register a domain imitating the Icelandic Police domain and a malicious attachment file with which roughly translated to "Called in for questioning by the police on 30 October," according to Bleeping Computer.
In response to the news of a large-scale phishing attack targeting individuals in Iceland, please see below comments from Martin Jartelius, CSO of Outpost24:
Iceland's largest phishing campaign imitated police
http://ftnews.firetrench.com/2018/10/iceland-suffers-it-largest-ever-cyber-attack/