Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-12-29 00:00:00
Affected organization: Democratic National Committee
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Other Services (except Public Administration)
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: FSB 18thï¿½Center for Information Security (Berserk Bear); GRU Unit 26165 (FANCY BEAR)
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: Russian Federation
Description: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reval the details of "Grizzly Steppe", the operation through which two alleged Russian APTs (APT28 and APT29) hacked the Democratic National Committee since Summer 2015.