Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2018-11-13 00:00:00
Affected organization: UK Engineering Company
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Manufacturing
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Industrial-Espionage
Actor: Ministry of State Security's (MSS) Hainan State Security Department (APT40)
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: China
Description: Researchers from Recorded Future reveal the details of a spear phishing campaign carried out by the Chinese TEMP.Periscope group against a UK based engineering company, leveraging Russian APT Techniques.