Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2018-07-11 00:00:00
Affected organization: Chlorine distillation plant in Ukraine
Affected country: Ukraine
Industry: Utilities
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Data in Transit
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: The Ukrainian Secret Service (SBU) reveals it stopped a cyber-attack with the VPNFilter malware on a chlorine distillation plant in the village of Aulska, in the Dnipropetrovsk region. The SBU accuses Russia of operating the malware and launching the attack.