Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-11-08 00:00:00
Affected organization: Alfa-Bank
Affected country: Russian Federation
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service
Motive: Financial
Actor: vimproducts
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: A hacker called vimproducts claims to have taken down several Russian banks including the Moscow Exchange, the Bank of Moscow, Rosbank, and Alfa-Bank.